Ho`okaāhi no laā o ka malihini
in the spirit of cooperation and working together, this saying is to encourage a guest after a day to help out with the work with the rest.
Another Hawaiian Proverb
8 11 2011
Aloha kekahi i kekahi
This is the Hawaiian way of saying “love one another”
Isn’t this an important message to carry in your heart every day to promote aloha?
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Pāpa`i
15 10 2011
Pāpa`i Thalamita crenata known as the Blue Pincher Crab is indigenous to the Pacific Islands and unlike most swimming crabs is most active in the daytime.
They are gray to greenish brown with a white tipped claws and a broad back band. Their bodies are sometimes pink and the upper part of their claws are blue. They grow to a width of approximately five inches. The live in brackish muddy areas and sandy areas of salt water. They dine on limu, small pieces of plant and animal matter, snails, and mangrove detritus.
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Categories : fish, Natural History of HI
Hawaiian Proverb: Work Together
8 10 2011
Ho ̀okaāhi ka ̀`ilāu like ana
is a Hawaiian saying that means: Wield the paddles together.
This is a proverb that encourages cooperation and working together in harmony as ancient paddlers have done for hundreds of years.
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The Marquesans First Communities in Hawaii
20 09 2011
The Marquesans, said to be the first people to come to the Hawaiian Islands created three communities on O`ahu.
Waimanalo a small town on Oahu’s windward (east) coast, near the southeastern tip of the island. It is a Hawaiian homelands community and agricultural lots in the valley extend all the way towards the Koolau Mountain Range,
Kailua on the windward coast at Kailua Bay, and Kaenohe . All three places offered year-round fresh water, fertile valleys, offshore reefs that attracted ample sealife, lagoons that were sheltered for fish ponds and basaltic rock that they used to make tools.
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Categories : ancient sites in hawaii, Historic Figures
Kū`ula: The Hawaiian God of Fishermen
15 09 2011
Kona Sunday Fisherman
Fishing has always been an important part of Hawaiian culture as is a deep respect for the bounty of the natural world that surrounds them in the sea. Many make regular offerings to Kū`ula the God of Fisherman.
Kū lived with his wife Hina and their son `Ai`ai in Hāna on the island of Maui. On the edge of the sea he walled off an area and kept all kinds of fish in what was thought to be the first fish ponds. Nearby he made offerings to a small shrine and because of this reverence was always able to land the fish he needed. Fish were said to come to his hook, net, or basket as he prayed for success in his endeavors even when friends and neighbors had no luck. He was always generous to share his catch with those whose fishing skills were less hones.
Fishing is an important part of sustaining a community and Kū`ula knew that it was important to be generous to share but also to conserve his catch in his fish ponds. He was always careful to make an offering of the first fish caught to the ko`a, the fishing shrine.
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Categories : fish, Hawaiian Mythology
Hawaiian Proverbs: `Ōlelo No`eau
8 09 2011
‘A`ohe hua o ka mai`a i ka lā ho’okaāhi
means when a task is done together no task is too big…
this is another way of saying many hands make light work, an important lesson to remember.
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