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Paperback The Seven Dawns of the Aumakua: The Ancestral Spirit Tradition of Hawaii Book

ISBN: 0892811447

ISBN13: 9780892811441

The Seven Dawns of the Aumakua: The Ancestral Spirit Tradition of Hawaii

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An extensive examination of Hawaiian spiritual tradition and its emphasis on ancestral spirits by a descendant of an ancient lineage of Hawaiian priests - Describes the time-honored intergenerational... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Wonderful insight into Hawaiian spirituality

Moke Kupihea is a Native Hawaiian who grew up on the island of Kaua'i at a time when it still truly was the Garden Island. His stories of his childhood and young adulthood spent with kupuna (elders) is fascinating. He was fortunate to know several who passed on their wisdom to him. Anyone who has spent anytime on Kaua'i will love his descriptions of the aina, the land. He describes in vivid detail his treks through Waimea and beyond. His narratives of his long journeys help us to begin to understand that the way Hawaiians think about land and spirituality is fundamentally different than the way they are thought of in Western civilization. His spirituality springs from a closeness to the land that few of us can ever hope to have. The land is almost literally his mother, his nurturer, his guardian. He describes mystical experiences that even in the re-telling give the reader chicken skin. As the editor of Na Mo'olelo Lomilomi: Traditions of Hawaiian Massage and Healing, I was blessed to receive permission from Moke to quote from this book a delightful description of the making of Hawaiian salt. This book is a must for anyone interested in Hawaiian spirituality from a Native Hawaiian perspective.
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