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A grandmother’s love becomes soil, a fishbone left in the sun.
I asked for water and my father’s father gave me rain.
The alae is a indigenous bird associated with fire and Hina, a matriarchal deity in Hawaiian oral history. Doing 3 rectangular panels for 3 female deities invoked to destroy enemies, each of them being connected to a type of indigenous bird. https://t.co/lKGhdDCrI2
“Kūpuna and the poʻe make. ʻOia, pau hele i ka wai, ka ʻuhane, hiki no, haʻalele. Komo i loko o ka hale, poʻe i make. Mamua loa.”
“elders and the dead. The ones who died in the water, so their spirit could depart. The bodies were brought to this house, long before.”
-Uncle hale