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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 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]
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.
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The City and County of Honolulu held a blessing this week at the Healer Stones of Kapaemahu, where a new plaque was unveiled that includes a QR code to an online website with additional history
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.
Lyrically simple and repetitive, these songs are invocations to summon a lwa. [9] As well as drumming, dancing plays a major role in ritual, [12] with the drumming providing the rhythm for the dance. [10] The dances are simple, lacking complex choreography, and usually involve the dancers moving counterclockwise around the poto mitan. [13]
The Navajo song ceremonial complex is a spiritual practice used by certain Navajo ceremonial people to restore and maintain balance and harmony in the lives of the people. One half of the ceremonial complex is the Blessing Way, while the other half is the Enemy Way ( Anaʼí Ndááʼ ).