Hawaiian Legends of the Guardian Spirits

Hawaiian Legends of the Guardian SpiritsAncient Hawaiians lived in a world where all of nature was alive with the spirits of their ancestors. These aumakua have lived on through the ages as family guardians and take on many natural forms, thus linking many Hawaiians to the animals, plants, and natural phenomena of their island home. Individuals have a reciprocal relationship with their guardian spirits and offer worship and sacrifice in return for protection, inspiration, and guidance.

and this book contains many fascinating facts about them

Theme: Hawaiian and local culture

An appendix includes a complete list of lei plants

During “soul sleep

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Malie the Mano is quiet and shy

When the storytellers of ancient Hawaii gathered by the light of candlenut torches

naturalist Kathy Valier describes more than sixty of the most common ferns growing wild in Hawaiʻi

stories) about the mō‘ī

Ua pili nā kānaka he nui o loko o ia puke i ka pāʻani pepa

Through nineteenth-century translations