HO`OMANAPULE

HO`OMANA & PULE

Ho`omana• To place in authority, empower, authorize

• To worship; religion, sect.

Pule• nvt. Prayer, magic spell, incantation, blessing,

grace, church service, church; to pray, worship, say grace, ask a blessing, cast a spell.

PULE

• Pule ho`omau: prayer for crops

• Pule ho`onoa: prayer to lift kapu

• Pule kala: prayer of release

• Pule `umi: prayer to choke

• Pule ho` la: healing prayersō

KAUKAU

• nvt. Chant of lamentation, as addressing the dead directly; to advise, admonish, especially in a kindly or affectionate manner; to weigh in the mind, deliberate, reason with (Hal. 13.2), appeal to.

` LELO NO`EAUŌ

• Mai ka ho`oku`i a ka h l waiā āFrom the zenith to the horizon

• Mai ka l hiki a ka l kauā āFrom the sun’s arrival to the sun’s rest

` LELO NO`EAUŌ

• Kau ka l i ka lolo, ho`i ke aka i ke kinoāLit. The sun stands over the brain, the shadow retreats into the body

Said of high noon, when the sun is directly overhead and no shadows are seen – an important time for some ancient rites and ceremonies

`AWA

`AWA CEREMONY

` LELO NO`EAUŌ

• E h nai `awa a ikaika ka makaniāFeed with `awa so that the spirit may gain strength

One offers `awa and prayers to the dead so that their spirits may grow strong and be a source of help to the family

P KAIĪ

• v. To sprinkle with sea water or salted fresh water to purify or remove taboo, as formerly done after a death

HO`OPONOPONO & LIMU KALA

HI`UWAI

• n. Water purification festivities on the second night of the month of Welehu (near the end of the year). The people bathed and frolicked in the sea or stream after midnight, then put on their finest tapa and ornaments for feasting and game

HO`OLA`A HALE

• la aʻ– vs. Sacred, holy, devoted, consecrated, set apart or

reserved as for sacred purposes, dedicated.

• ho o.la a ʻ ʻ– To consecrate, dedicate, sanctify, bless, hallow. Ka

ho ola a ana, the consecration, dedication.ʻ ʻ ʻ

MOKU KA PIKO

`AILOLO

• 1. nvt. Ceremony usually marking the end of training, so called because the student ate ( ai) ʻa portion of the head, and especially the brains (lolo), of a fish, dog, or hog offered to the gods; to partake of the ceremony.

• 2. vt. Skilled, adept, expert, trained, proficient. Ua ailolo oia i ka hula, he is trained in the ʻ ʻhula.

M WEKEĀ

• Definition: open, loose, separate, undone

• Sunrise rites of passage ceremony to clear the way for graduates

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