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The tradition of Kapaemahu, like all pre-contact Hawaiian knowledge, was orally transmitted. [11] The first written account of the story is attributed to James Harbottle Boyd, and was published by Thomas G. Thrum under the title “Tradition of the Wizard Stones Ka-Pae-Mahu” in the Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1907, [1] and reprinted in 1923 under the title “The Wizard Stones of Ka-Pae ...
Kapaemahu is a 2022 picture book written by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, and Joe Wilson, and illustrated by Daniel Sousa. The book, which was originally produced as an animated short film, provides a retelling of an ancient Indigenous Hawaiian legend and is written in both ʻŌlelo Niʻihau and English.
Kapaemahu is a 2020 animated short film produced and directed by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson with director of the animation Daniel Sousa. It is based on the long-hidden history of four healing stones on Waikiki Beach placed there as a tribute to four legendary mahu who first brought the healing arts to Hawaii. [ 1 ]
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Kapu kai: the ritual purification of bathing in the sea. Kapukapu: to be decorous. Kapukapu kai: the ritual of lifting a ban by sprinkling sea water. Kapu kū mamao: the law on commoners to be separate from the chiefs. Kapuku: "to restore life" in Hawaiian. Kapu loa: To be strictly forbidden. Kapu moe: protocol of prostration.
The terms “third gender”, “in the middle”, and “gender fluid” have been used to help explain māhū in the English language. According to present-day māhū kumu hula Kaua'i Iki: [ 3 ] Māhū were particularly respected as teachers, usually of hula dance and chant.
In 2020, Wong-Kalu directed, produced and narrated Kapaemahu, [24] an animated short film based on the Hawaiian story of four legendary māhū who brought the healing arts from Tahiti to Hawai'i and imbued their powers on giant boulders that still stand on Waikiki Beach after the introduction of the U.S. government and tourism.