Hoomana

Author : Valerio Valeri
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226845605
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kingship and Sacrifice written by Valerio Valeri and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1985-06-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valeri presents an overview of Hawaiian religious culture, in which hierarchies of social beings and their actions are mirrored by the cosmological hierarchy of the gods. As the sacrifice is performed, the worshipper is incorporated into the god of his class. Thus he draws on divine power to sustain the social order of which his action is a part, and in which his own place is determined by the degree of his resemblance to his god. The key to Hawaiian society—and a central focus for Valeri—is the complex and encompassing sacrificial ritual that is the responsibility of the king, for it displays in concrete actions all the concepts of pre-Western Hawaiian society. By interpreting and understanding this ritual cycle, Valeri contends, we can interpret all of Hawaiian religious culture.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native Hawaiian Study Commission Report written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.LJ/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marie Alohalani Brown
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824891090
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ka Po‘e Mo‘o Akua written by Marie Alohalani Brown and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tradition holds that when you come across a body of fresh water in a secluded area and everything is eerily still, the plants are yellowed, and the water covered with a greenish-yellow froth, you have stumbled across the home of a mo‘o. Leave quickly lest the mo‘o make itself known to you! Revered and reviled, reptiles have slithered, glided, crawled, and climbed their way through the human imagination and into prominent places in many cultures and belief systems around the world. Ka Po‘e Mo‘o Akua: Hawaiian Reptilian Water Deities explores the fearsome and fascinating creatures known as mo‘o that embody the life-giving and death-dealing properties of water. Mo‘o are not ocean-dwellers; instead, they live primarily in or near bodies of fresh water. They vary greatly in size, appearing as tall as a mountain or as tiny as a house gecko, and many possess alternate forms. Mo‘o are predominantly female, and the female mo‘o that masquerade as humans are often described as stunningly beautiful. Throughout Hawaiian history, mo‘o akua have held distinctive roles and have filled a variety of functions in overlapping religious, familial, societal, economic, and political sectors. In addition to being a comprehensive treatise on mo‘o akua, this work includes a detailed catalog of 288 individual mo‘o with source citations. Marie Alohalani Brown makes major contributions to the politics and poetics of reconstructing ‘ike kupuna (ancestral knowledge), Hawaiian aesthetics, the nature of tradition, the study and appreciation of mo‘olelo and ka‘ao (hi/stories), genre analysis and metadiscursive practices, and methodologies for conducting research in Hawaiian-language newspapers. An extensive introduction also offers readers context for understanding how these uniquely Hawaiian deities relate to other reptilian entities in Polynesia and around the world.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1136 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native Hawaiians Study Commission: Appendix written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Malcolm Naea Chun
Publisher : CRDG
ISBN 13 : 1583510478
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ho`omana written by Malcolm Naea Chun and published by CRDG. This book was released on 2007 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ho'omana examines what happened to Native Hawaiian beliefs from the time the priests ended traditional temple worship in 1819 to the present day controversies over sacred sites and objects. As a former Cultural Affairs Officer for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Malcolm Naea Chun was actively involved in the early initiatives of cultural and historic preservation and knows well of the conflicts and struggles that involve and invoke Hawaiian beliefs. He has written and published several articles on the historical dialogue between traditional religion and Christianity. In Ho'omana, Chun uses primary Native Hawaiian sources to compare pre-contact practices with contemporary beliefs and practices, looking for what has been retained, what has changed, and which current practices should be considered questionable as Native Hawaiian. This book is one of eleven short volumes of the Ka Wana series, which is part of the Pihana Na Mamo Native Hawaiian Education Program.

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Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.LH/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ke Kauoha Hou a Ko Kakou Haku E Ola'i a Iesu Kristo, Ua Unuhila Mai Ka Olelo Helene a Ua Hooponopono Hou Ia written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hawaii. Supreme Court
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reports of a Portion of the Decisions Rendered by the Supreme Court of the Hawaiian Islands written by Hawaii. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 936 pages
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Download or read book Hawaii reports : cases determined in the Supreme Court of the Territory of Hawaii written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hawaii. Supreme Court
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 940 pages
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Download or read book Hawaii Reports written by Hawaii. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: