Adam Keawe Manalo-Camp

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Indigenous Researcher and Writer

Tag: Hawaiian religion

Bray and Reincarnation

Reposting an article on the topic The Kahuna and Reincarnation The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Thursday, June 11, 1959 – Clarice B. Taylor’s “Tales about Hawaii“ “Did the Hawaiian believe in reincarnation?” asks the haole “seeker of the truth” of Daddy (David K.) Bray in trying to find the secret of the power of the — read more

Jun 24, 2020
ʻIliʻiliʻōpae

Often times we tend to think that by the 1840s, all Hawaiians were Christians. But up to the 1880s, there were writers who still were reporting resistance to Christianity. Reverend Forbes–pastor to female High Chief Kapiʻolani–writing in the 1840s reported that kāhuna were still meeting at ʻIliʻiliʻōpae Heiau and offering prayers to ʻUli, Lono, and — read more

Jun 9, 2018
Hawaiian Meme: ʻAumākua

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Jun 9, 2018
Menstruation through the Lens of Hawaiian Culture

One of the negative impacts that Westernization and colonialism brought to Hawaiʻi was the way we understand women in Hawaiian culture. Take for example a womanʻs menses. There are several terms for a womanʻs menstruation. Hanawai, kahe, maʻi (wahine), heʻe koko, wai, wai ʻula, wai o ka wahine, waimaka lehua. We tend to think of — read more

Jun 9, 2018
Menopause In Hawaiian Culture

I’ll just give some mana’o on menopause from a Hawaiian perspective based on talking story with kūpuna in Papakolea and Hawaiʻi island as well as from research primarily from Mary Kawena Pukui. In Hawaiian, menopause is referred to by three terms: Hoʻokiʻo; lele; and mau. Kiʻo refers to a small pool used to stock fish. Hoʻokiʻo — read more

Jun 9, 2018
Princess Ruth Keʻelikōlani and Mauna Loa

There was a major eruption from Mauna Loa that erupted in November 1880 and continued for several months. By March, 1881, the lava flowed northeast toward Hilo threatening the entire city. The lava inched its way closer and closer to the city. Local Christian churches held special services to pray for the volcano to stop, — read more

Jun 9, 2018
Hoʻokupu, ʻĀlana and Making Offerings

The subject of making or giving offerings is important to Kanaka Maoli and is a marker of respect when one is visiting a wahipana (sacred place) such as a heiau. The giving of an offering goes deep into Hawaiian mythology and within the Hawaiian epic of the Kumulipo, nature emerges before the gods. The Gods are — read more

Jun 9, 2018
Pō and the Kumulipo

The Kumulipo in my opinion is one of the greatest Hawaiian narratives ever composed. Its metrics is seem designed to imitate the ocean waves with its high and low tides and its symbolism while appearing to be literal, hints at numerous philosophical points. One of the points I wanted to break down is on the — read more

Feb 5, 2017
Did Hawaiians think of Captain Cook as Lono?

Every Hawaiian scholar has a take on this though it’s really not a “Hawaiian” issue per se. There’s a couple of things that we need to consider when we think about this question. One, the way that Hawaiian scholars and writers for the last two hundred years have had to use the medium of — read more

Feb 5, 2017
Some thoughts about Pono

“At the very beginning of the path to Enlightenment there are twenty difficulties for us to overcome in this world and they are:1. It is hard for a poor man to be generous.2. It is hard for a proud man to learn the Way of Enlightenment.3. It is hard to seek Enlightenment at the cost — read more

Feb 25, 2014