“The Seven Dawns of the Aumakua: The Ancestral Spirit Tradition of Hawaii,” by the late, Kauai’s own, Moke Kupihea, might be a book you’ve been looking for if you enjoy learning about Hawaiian spirituality. It has understandably garnered high praise
“The Seven Dawns of the Aumakua: The Ancestral Spirit Tradition of Hawaii,” by the late, Kauai’s own, Moke Kupihea, might be a book you’ve been looking for if you enjoy learning about Hawaiian spirituality. It has understandably garnered high praise from many, including the famous Hawaii historian Andrew Bushnell, and is well worth the read.
There are many volumes written about Huna, or Hawaiian spirituality, coming from a variety of perspectives: historical, metaphorical, or even new-age/psycho-metaphysical. So, what is it that makes this book unique from all the others?
One of the most defining points of “Seven Dawns” is the author Moke Kupihea. Kupihea was raised in Kauai’s Waimea Valley. From family, he studied the traditions and roots that formed the core foundation of the spiritual essence of Hawaii’s culture. These lessons from his youth and of how he learned over time to listen to the faint yet present ancestral voices and channel it through striving to live both mindfully and present with the land, is wonderfully chronicled in this book.
As he is guided through the lessons of native spirituality amidst his exploration of the wilds of the Garden Island, we as the reader get to learn with him, understanding their context as they were given.
Even if read as only a history, one truly gets a genuine experience, unfiltered from the influence of other cultural understandings or interpretations in an easy-to-read prose. That unto itself makes “Seven Dawns” a very special entry in the study of Huna.
We were fortunate enough to have met the author several times. We remember him to be as open and generous as the lessons in his book espouse. That being said, it has always been easy for us to recommend “Seven Dawns” when customers ask for Hawaiian spirituality books.
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Ed and Cynthia Justus own The Bookstore in Hanapepe.
Could you please pass on to Moke Kupihea, or anyone of the same interests:
Hello Moke:
My blog is: the once and future Osiris.blogspot.com —
Because of my background in Radio and Cryptography I see sacred sites as possible carrier frequencies, and recommend to people some rites and rituals that can modulate those carriers. Specifically, I’m looking at the two above-ground sites on Kauai and the many caves there.
The sarcophagus in the king’s chamber was used as a sensory deprivation tank. The adept in the tank used his meditation and the opening of the pineal gland so as to modulate the spiral line of less gravity than the norm that passes directly through the peaks of the three main pyramids and is the reason why the area was drawn up to be a plateau. Each planet has less gravity than the norm at its equator; this becomes a weakness in the fabric of space that is instantly felt in in all 26 dimensions, and lands on the other rotating bodies in the vicinity. The slaves coming out of Egypt had no way to understand the advanced technologies that Moses employed. Please respond. Joe richardson