Seriously, these signs are good! It only takes one person or incident (or more actually) that tells me to wake up, and see what is being said. As was the case yesterday, as there was a posting about someone, that eventually got responnses or actually retaliation to which, as usual, that said person disagreed and as usual, do everything in the dirty book, did in order to come across, as that person described in a forum discussion which was locked, as "FEAR".That person's tactic, was to incite fear by stating they had an ancestor who was a, kahuna from Molokai. This is to give the idea that Molokai was well known for their school of sorcery. There is no mention of who this ancestor was, mainly because there is no ancestral kahuna from Molokai that this person claims to have.Now although I come from Molokai, I do not have ancestors from that school of sorcery, at least not that I'm aware of. There is a relative, my ancestors' relative in the 1800s, probably in the early 1900s too, that did practice 'ana'ana, but that was on Maui. Whether he went to Molokai to learn it or not is unknown.However, it's irrelavant. Should I expose my ancestors, and throw fear into people to make them back off? That's what this one person is trying to do, and that is what KU (aka a person w/ the initials of G.T.S.) had done too, by stating they are descendants of a kahuna on Molokai and Ku. so if these people claim descent, what gives them the right to actually flaunt it? Does it mean that whatever they say is gold, while the rest of us cannot say anything?What is unique though, that through all of this, I was reminded of how fortunate I was to have grown up in a small community on Molokai. My neighbors, of whom my family is close with, are descendants of the woman responsible for setting up the school of sorcery known as hoopiopio where she taught dream interpretation, how to counter attack mischief, sickness and death. She had the knowledge of how to swish her kapa and drop a man in his tracks, plus she was the keeper of the Kalaipahoa gods after the death of her father, the chief Kaiakea who had discovered and built a house for the gods Kapo and Pua and became their kahu. It was these gods who entered the trees up in Maunaloa and became the kalaipahoa gods.But for us, growing up was just...normal. These neighbors of mine, along with other descendants of whom I went to school with, some are my cousins' cousins, never, ever threatened me or anyone else, unlike what that person did. And there was a good reason why they didn't do that. We were of the same community. We had to live in harmony. One didn't do hoopiopio for the sake of threatening just as that person did. That's not what that was for.When looking back, I realized how much and how fortunate I was to be exposed to that. Mai hookiekie, as the olelo noeau or part of the olelo noeau states. Too bad others can't follow that.
I actually like it when people show their true colors. That is the only way to bring out the pono and the non-pono. She reacts just as a non-pono person reacts: Ignorance, trying to intimidate others, and writing defamatory statements about us after falsely accusing us of writing libel about her.
I also find it a bit amusing that she resorted to the same tactics as Ken Conklin does. Obviously it doesn't work on me. To this day I ignore him just as I ignore her.
Though she seems to conflate "her pouts and ineffective harassment and intimidation" to "people are afraid of her" many attorneys and law enforcement officers (some whom I know and who know me) are laughing AT her. If she ONLY knew. They do not fear her. Instead they are LAUGHING AT her.
Obviously she does not know much about Ka'u. She has NO credibility with me and does not get MY stamp of approval. However many others do LOL
As for Molokai being your home... yeah I can understand. Those people with whom I grew up know me. They are the ones who know the meaning of commUNITY. Yes... this includes Hilo, Keaukaha, AND O'AHU LOL IMHO it depends on how one was raised... and with whom. Like you I am very fortunate that I was raised thinking about the Kakou instead of about the Me Me Me LOL and I am also O'ahuan. Not all O'ahuans are selfish. That is for sure.
Oh yeah, good point Lana. The concept of INDIVIDUALISM, very important in western culture, but it's diff. in Hawn. culture. For Hawaiian culture, it was the community, which is why I blogged about it. Or as you wrote it, community. It's kakou, not makou or worse, as what that person was doing - AU. That's all it was. Me, me, me, as you said.
NOw let's see if that person can learn from it. I'm sure that they won't.
Teh wonderful thing about our culture, it relates to every aspects of our lives. Cousin Alexander did an interview with me about his mana'o. (Kalani look under Pono's video). Alexander is right about how everything is inter related and he brought that to my attention. I learn more and more from him everyday thus enlightens me to learn more and appreciate our culture. Every island have their mana, good bad or ugly per say. What makes Molokai special is that is it is not over developed. We still have places to visit and laid back but a wonderful place to be!
Molokai will always be my home. Cheerish the moments we have and spend less time in the garden of "evil." Life is to short to be wasted the ugliness when all can be spent of "Coming home to the Kingdom (Alexander Luka)
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I actually like it when people show their true colors. That is the only way to bring out the pono and the non-pono. She reacts just as a non-pono person reacts: Ignorance, trying to intimidate others, and writing defamatory statements about us after falsely accusing us of writing libel about her.
I also find it a bit amusing that she resorted to the same tactics as Ken Conklin does. Obviously it doesn't work on me. To this day I ignore him just as I ignore her.
Though she seems to conflate "her pouts and ineffective harassment and intimidation" to "people are afraid of her" many attorneys and law enforcement officers (some whom I know and who know me) are laughing AT her. If she ONLY knew. They do not fear her. Instead they are LAUGHING AT her.
Obviously she does not know much about Ka'u. She has NO credibility with me and does not get MY stamp of approval. However many others do LOL
As for Molokai being your home... yeah I can understand. Those people with whom I grew up know me. They are the ones who know the meaning of commUNITY. Yes... this includes Hilo, Keaukaha, AND O'AHU LOL IMHO it depends on how one was raised... and with whom. Like you I am very fortunate that I was raised thinking about the Kakou instead of about the Me Me Me LOL and I am also O'ahuan. Not all O'ahuans are selfish. That is for sure.
NOw let's see if that person can learn from it. I'm sure that they won't.
Molokai will always be my home. Cheerish the moments we have and spend less time in the garden of "evil." Life is to short to be wasted the ugliness when all can be spent of "Coming home to the Kingdom (Alexander Luka)
A famous saying by this crazy cuz: HAPPENING!