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Lapita Pottery - -Named for a site in Melanesia, a low-fired brown pottery
with lines and geometric decorations made with a pointed instrument. In use
between 1500 and 1000 B.C.E, it reveals the direction of migration into the
Pacific.
-Polynesian Triangle - -An imaginary triangle with sides 4,000 miles (6,500
km) long linking Hawai'i, Easter Island, and New Zealand and containing
several thousand islands.
-Kumulipo - -- The source of darkness
- Hawaiian creation chant
-Moʻokūʻauhau - -A genealogical story, or the study of your family and your
history. It traces your lineage back to your ancestors. And it's so much more
than names and dates. You inherited your physical traits—the color of your
hair, eyes, and skin—from your biological parents. Their physical traits were
passed on from their parents, and so on.
-Kanaloa - -God of the ocean
A god symbolized by the squid or by the octopus, and is typically associated
with Kāne.[1] It is also the name of an extinct volcano in Hawaiʻi.
-Moʻolelo - -Story, myth, legend and history that had been orally passed
down through tradition.
-'Aikapu - -religion based on sacred eating of food
Defined Hawaiian societies for generations. It was a gender ordering of
society.
• Separate eating spaces.
• Foods ordered by male and female akua.o Male: Puaʻa (pigs).
Wāhine: Certain variety of bananas, or fish that were Kapu to females.
-Malama Aina - -Care for the land
Work for the land and it will work for you
-Ali'i nui - -definition: a chief or noble (hereditary) in Polynesian tribes
, significance: demonstrated hierarchy in Polynesian societies
the traditional nobility of the Hawaiian islands. They were part of a
hereditary line of rulers
Had relationships with the kahunaʻs, and had access to them.Responsibility:
To make sure the gods, people, government, and land are working in
balance/ prosperous.
-kahuna - -(n) a Hawaiian shaman , Hawaiian priest, wizard, shaman; used
in the slang phrase "big kahuna"
Experts in particular things (Clouds, stars, skys, medicine, political
strategists, landscape, and so forth). Knowledge wells. If you laid eyes on
one, you could die.
-Kāne - -Highest of the 4 major Hawaiian deities , along with Kanaloa, Ku,
and Lono. God of procreation and worshiped as the ancestor of Ali'i and
Maka'ainana.
Kāne is the creator and gives life associated with dawn, sun and sky. No
human sacrifice or laborious ritual was needed in the worship of Kāne.
-Konohiki - -Served as an in between with the commoners and royal aliʻi.
Theyʻre closer to the land, and operations of a certain district, culture, area,
landscape, and people. Responsibility: Manage the land of their areas.
Sometimes they changed, rotated, or came from the makaʻainana. Enough
rank to communicate with the aliʻi nui without offending the kapu.
-Makaʻāinana - -The planters and fishers who lived on the lands;
commoners
-Ahupua'a - -Sections of land; self-sufficient ecosystems in Hawaii, , land
division-. Division of land in Hawaii into pie shapes. Each pie shape had all
the different geographic/economic typles -sea./fishing, -plains/farming-tarro
root, sugar canes, pineapples, etc. Hawaii economy based on trade not $$$,
cheifs would manage trade amongst commoners.
-'Ohana - -Family
-Mana - -Religious power or energy that is concentrated in individuals or
objects
-Papa - -Goddess and Earth Mother and wife to Wākea. Their (Papa and
Wakea) daughter is the goddess Ho'ohokulanai. She is known as a primordial
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