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Ho'oponopono Traditions
He lani i luna, he honua i lalo - stay with your legs on the Earth and reach to the Sky with your Spirit...Ho'oponopono is the old Hawaiian wisdom about creating relationships. Mythology is the great source of information about relationship between people and Gods. Important to remember that many of Hawaiian Gods, have been originally humans, for their qualities brought to the "goddish" level. One of the most known Hawaiian Goddesses today is the jungest sister of Goddess Pele - Hi'iaka i ka Poli o Pele. She was most beloved sister. She is present in many chants to Pele. Hi'iaka i ka Poli o Pele represents ability to heal, feel compassion and act with humility and devotion. She is the heroin of many stories about healing. With her gentleness and loving approach, she represent human ability to stay helpful even for the costs of own happines. Another Goddess - Laka is still present in Hawaiian mythology as the Goddess of Hula dance. She helps to follow hundrets of generations of traditions, knowledge and widsom kept in Hula stories, gesturesa and chants. For Hula dancers today she still offer spiritual help and protection. The wide known God - Kane is the male god of creation. He represents male aspect of creation. God who lived high in Heaven, who look from above and sends Water of Life to the Earth. In eveyday life he would be called by kahunas for healing deep problems. Lono was the God, very known in last part of Hawaiian history though the events, connected with arrival of cpt. James Cook. He arrived to Kealakekua bay in time of God Lono, when most people from the island were praying to the God Lono for abundance and fertility of their land. Legend said that Lono left the island and will come back on the island with white trees... And ship of J.cook look exaclty like the small island with white trees - from the distance. For peole who only were using canoe for traveling though ocean, the arrival of Cook was like fulfillment of the profecy. So, cpt. Cook was invited to the old heaiau and ritauls were made for bringing him to Hawaiin Gods panteon... A mistake, which many Hawaiins believe, is still affecting Hawaiian reality. Ku God was connected with very old traditions of life in close connection with nature. The latest remembered aspect of Ku god - Kukailimoku - was a God of a war. Used for unifiying all Hawaiian islands by king Kamehameha I, stayed in memmory in present tourist books. Alhough not many tourists know, that ancient god Ku was the god of life. What realy is interesing in Hawaiian mythology, is the awrenes of interactions between human and nature. Kahunas of many types have been respecting this cooperation with great respect. Although they could not pass this values to new commoners, white people with different values, different cultural frames and beliefs.
Hawaiian culture stayed in isolation form other cultures for centuries. South Polynesian "forgot" about Hawaiian islands (the far distance probably was the reason) and the rest of the world just did not know about their existence. Thus this fact, on Hawaii the unique culture developed. Famous Hawaiian Hula dance -the traditional form of "talking" to the gods, traditional Hawaiian massage - Lomilomi, known from its unique power as well as Lua - marshal art, the art of using spiritual power - mana. For many of us - researchers - some of Hawaiian skills are undirect prove, that Hawaiian culture - isolated form the rest of the world for a lond time - preseved very old traditions, which have roots in much, much older civilisations. There is no simply explanations for the wisdom about human psychology, which was used by old Kahunas. There are not easy modern explanations for the spirituar power - mana. Their knowledge about dealing with spirit of whose whos body died, was deep and similar to very old practices in Africa as well Tibet. Looks like the long cultural isolations become the blessing for today world - we can heal our life using preserved on Hawaii wisdom which was preserved there from our very old ancestors. Hawaiian mythology is full of fantastic stories about gods and goddesses. Some live in deep valeys, some hight in the sky. Many of them have been humans long time before they became gods. From this point - Hawaiian gods are different to the concept of God, existing in modern westers cultures. The skills which gods were presenting, their dedication to the Ohana in time of their human existence, was creating the highest value for society and after death of the body resulted in becoming a God of certain type. This way gods on old Hawaii was not just abstract concepts to worship, they have been extremally grouded in human reality and thus though real life actions were extended to "goddish" bevel. One of the most remembered Goddesses on Hawaii today is Pele, the Goddess of Volcano. The stories about Pele, who in shape of old woman stand in the night on the side of the road and stops your car asking for the lift - are still alive. Old Hawaiian people believe, that Pele can take many shapes and if you meet her, it is not a good idea, to ignore her. Many people on Hawaii refer to their experiences of meeting Pele, in very strange life situation. For wester mind such stories are just superstitions and imagination. But we need to remember that we are living in totaly different reference scale culture. To understand the experiences of Hawaiian people, we would need to be born in their culture and live there. Lately we visited the Kalapana village, where fire of Pele was taking a house of our friends. They were making a feast instead of crying and being angry. Some of our friends asked them - "how it is what you are able to enjoy the situation, that your home is destroyed by lava flow? they answere: "we don't enjoy that our hause is destroyed. We are giving our home to Pele as a gift. We understand that if she choose to take it, we can discuss such decision." This is the example of reactions, which may be not easy to be understood in western culture frames of reference. For some Hawaiian people - especially on Big Island - Pele is not the one who destroys, she as well build new land ...home for future generations.. With her unpredictibility, with her power - Hawaiian people knows, its no way to discuss. You accept it or you suffer. Living close to Pele's home teacher people enourmous lesson about humility and power. And Love.
Aloha Article "Ho'oponopono in Hawaiian Traditions", author T.Pomaikai Mocna, ,copyrights © 2011 |
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