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Volcano Name
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Poster: Ida Wistar Email: matthew.freytag@maine.edu Subject: volcano name |
Posted on 5/22/03 at 6:59am |
| I want to know the hawiian word for "volcano". I need it for a school paper.I'm making it the name of a dragon in a really cool dictionary of exotic magic creatures! |
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Poster: Chelsea Smith Email: chelsea93@juno.com Subject: Kilauea |
Posted on 3/4/04 at 5:28am |
Please anyone tell me what Kilauea means thank you Chelsea |
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Poster: Nikolo Kamuela Heola'opomaika'i Okami Email: nkokami@olemiss.edu Subject: Volcano in Hawaii |
Posted on 12/19/04 at 7:43pm |
Volcano- Luapele Lua- pit, or hole Pele- Lava |
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Poster: punohu Email: punohu@yahoo.net Subject: |
Posted on 6/12/05 at 1:31pm |
| please be careful when mixing up cultural beleifs. what might be fun for you, may hurt other poeples feelings. think about how some native americans might feel bad if you mix a native war bonnet with a string of say kukui nuts and call it something and then throw in a dragon somewhere. kauai has no dragons, or hawaii either in any of its mythology it does have big lizards, our hereditary ancestors called mo'os. they dont breath fire, but are very smart and helpful to people. i also an a practitioner of the old hawaiian religion, and Pele is one of my godesses. i would not think it would be very nice to use her ancestral home as a home for a dragon. but there are lots of other volcanoes all over the world that might like to have a dragon named about it. do some more research, ok? much aloha and keep being interested in world cultures!!! punohu |
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Poster: Kimona Subject: Kiha-wahine |
Posted on 8/15/07 at 10:22pm |
What`s about the story of Kiha-wahine. I thought she was a kind of dragon. I`ve got this information out of a german book from the author "Manfred Chobot". He tells the love story of Kiha-wahine, a dragonwoman and Puna. In a fight against Pele she spies fire against Kilauea. Is this a translation error or a misunderstanding? Is she a kind of lizard? |
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Poster: Nalehemoaonalani Email: patrycja1069@sbcglobal.net Subject: About Kihawahine |
Posted on 8/29/07 at 8:42pm |
There's a very nice little article online that may help you understand that Kihawahine is not a "dragonwoman," but rather a "mo'o" (lizard) and a guardian spirit. This is a very important distinction, as ancestral guardian spirits, or "aumakua" are an essential element of Hawaiian spiritual life. The article starts off discussing geckos, but if you skip down past the pictures, you'll find the paragraphs describing the mo'o, and the aumakua -- and that Kihawahine was an aumakua of Kamehameha I. I don't know that anyone from cultures where dragons are part of the mythology proudly claims them as ancestors! Here's the link to the article: http://www.coffeetimes.com/geckos.htm I hope this helps you. |
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