Hawaii

Hawaii Paradise lost: Annexation of Hawaii We all watch the sunset together It is god singing to us- only some understand Natives from Polynesia in the first millennium AD were the first to inhabit Hawaii (ehawaiigov: www.state.hi.us). The early native Hawaiian’s method of religion was a type of natural worship. They personified the forces of nature as gods (encarta online). The progenitors of the gods were Wakea, the “sky father,” and Papa, the “earth mother,” but they were not the actual gods worshipped (Hawaii handbook: the all island guide). Among the most important gods worshipped were Ku, Kane, Kanaloa, Pele and Lono (encarta online). Ku was a universal god that represented the male outlook on life. His counterpart was Hina, the moon goddess. Ku was prayed to at sunrise and Hina was prayed to at sunset. Pointed stones represented Ku and flat ones represented Hina. Ku also ruled the forest, lands, mountains, farming and fishing, but he was better known as the god of war. He demanded human sacrifice in times of war. Kane means “man” or “husband” in Hawaiian. He hawaii, god, hawaiians, island, gods, first, people, new, natives, king, hawaiian, white, volcano, religion, prayed, life, ku, became, worshipped, worship, system, social, pele, over, mauna, kilauea, islands, human, even, war, together, sacrifice, represented, priest, oro