Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 37, Number 11, 1 November 2020 — 'O Lono 'Oe [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

'O Lono 'Oe

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By Mehanaokala Hinel Enā hoa heluhelu mai ka pi'i ana o ka lā i Ha'eha'e a i ke kai kā'ili lā o Lehua, aloha nui kakou! Greetings of aloha to my fellow readers, from the rising of the sun at Ha'eha'e to the sun snatching sea of Lehua. He wā ho'omaika'i a ho'okulāia nō kēia no ka lāhui! Ua 'ula a'e nei ka lae o kahi Kauka Kalei Nu'uhiwa a lae'ula ihola nō ho'i! This is a time of congratulation and celebration for the lāhui! The brow of a certain Dr. Kalei Nu'uhiwa has been reddened and her doctorate obtained! I bring this news to you, dear friends, as we enter into the time of the year that we celebrate the beginning of the Makahiki. Dr. Nu'uhiwa received her Ph.D. from the University of Waikato in Aotearoa. Her dissertation was titled: Makahiki - Nā Maka o Lono Utilizing the Papakū Makawalu Method to Analyze Mele and Pule of Lono anā the

Makahiki. Dr. Nu'uhiwa's dissertation is a feast for hungry practitioners of the Makahiki traditions and burgeoning kilo lani practitioners. Her research offers a lens through whieh we ean grow our limited understanding of an important legacy left to us by our ancestors. Makahiki is more than just the "games." It is a time to recalibrate, physically, spiritually and politically. For this short article, and since we are

in the appropriate time in the Kaulana Mahina, the moon calendar, I wanted to share with all of you, dear friends, a glimpse of her dissertation and what Dr. Nu'uhiwa says regarding the start of the Makahiki. Although the opening of Makahiki is celebrated in communities across Hawai'i at varying times from September through November, according to Nu'uhiwa, the first ceremony that opens the Makahiki season is the ceremony that closes the Kū season. This ceremony is called "Kauluwela" and it happens around August/September, or Hilinehu in the Kaulana Mahina, at whieh time environmental and politieal shifts occur from Kū/Kāne to Lono/ Kanaloa. The second ceremony that opens the Makahiki season is "Kuapola" whieh occurs on pō Hua in the malama of 'Ikuā (October) followed by a second Kuapola on pō Hua of Welehu (November). During the first Kuapola, observations and then prognostications of the upeom-

ing Makahiki are made by the kahuna and ali'i. The second Kuapola affirms those observations and prognostications with the maka'āinana. It is in Welehu when the Makali'i (Pleiades) is seen rising in the east, following both the setting of the sun and moon,

marking the beginning of the year. We anxiously await the publication of Dr. Nu'uhiwa's book to learn more about Makahiki, but in the meanhme you ean join her every morning at 9:00 a.m. at http://kanaenaetogether.com for her daily sharing of pule ho'ōla, prayers to support one another. And with that, I end here with this refrain, say it with me, "LONOIKAMAKAHIKI!" ■

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