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The old stones bear testimony to ancient power. The stones for the heiau were reputedly carried from Pololu Valley, about 14 miles (22 km) away, by a living chain of men, in only one night. Mo'okini heiau is a luakini - a pre-Christian temple where humans were sacrificed to the old gods. It is one of the most significant historic sites in Hawaii ... and one of the most sacred. Mo'okini helped the kahuna (priests) and ali'i (chiefs) communicate with their ancestors and their gods. In older times, entrance was kapu ... forbidden to ordinary Hawaiians ... to living Hawaiians that is. Mo'okini heiau is huge. The main building is about 125 by 250 feet (40m by 80m), with walls up to 30 feet (10m) wide. The temple is about 1000 yards (1 km) from the birthplace of Kamehameha, who used this heiau until he built and dedicated the heiau at Pu'ukohala to his war god - Kukailimoku (Ku the taker of islands). Kamehameha became the first chief to unite all the Hawaiian islands under one ruler. According to a Mo'okini family chant, this heiau was built under the direction of Kuamo'o Mo'okini around 480 AD and was dedicated to the god Ku. This heiau was rededicated by Pa'au, a kahuna-chief from Samoa, whose arrival (or invasion) of Hawaii in about 1000 AD commenced the kapu system used by Hawaiian chiefs until 1819. In 1819 the old Hawaiian ways were abandoned following the disruption and disease precipitated by Captain Cook's "discovery" of Hawaii. In every generation, a descendent of Kuamo'o Mo'okini became kahuna for the heiau. The present kahuna, Momi Mo'okini Lum, was a police sergeant in Honolulu. She said that she can trace her ancestry back before Kuamo'o Mo'okini to Mo'okini temples in Fiji, India and Kapakapa'ua'a'kane, which Momi Lum says refers to the Persian Gulf.
(Is Mo'okini heiau a link with Mohenjodaro and the Harappa culture of 2800 BCE India? We would welcome your research on this. Please email me if you know of any references. Martyn) The previous kahuna was Momi's father Dewey Mo'okini. Before him was Momi's uncle Heloke Mo'okini, who temple trained Momi Lum. One of Momi Lum's acts as kahuna was to free the temple of an ancient kapu (taboo) that made the temple accessible only to chiefs. Hawaiian Spirituality . Aumakua Magic, Mystery & Ho'oponoponoThe Mo'okini temple of Kohala maintains an atmosphere of dark mystery. When we take people to this site, many report strange and unusual phenomena. Generally, we tell people nothing about the history of the Mo'okini heiau - we prefer that they walk around, meditate, experience ... and then they tell us what they feel. It does not matter if you "believe in ghosts" when something unusual communicates to you. (We sometimes teach Huna Kalani, which includes the possibility of "talking" to spirits of the dead. Normally we use these skills to hooponopono (build harmony) with dead family members, especially to bring peace and balance to families after untimely deaths, such as suicide, murder or abortion.) A lady therapist refused to enter the heiau - she said that she could see dying, naked people being lead to a large rock to the right of the sea-side entrance. She said that the dying people looked as though they had been drugged. She did not know that this large dish-like rock (called Papanui Oleka) was used to prepare sacrifice victims for the altar (local Hawaiians say only a person with a death wish will lie on it.) Also, human sacrifice victims were often drowned or strangled, so that their bodies would look good on an altar. However, local Hawaiian people later told us that many Mo'okini sacrifice victims were poisoned. A businessman became agitated at the heiau, and described a dream warrior who wanted to sacrifice him - so that the ghostly warrior would gain enough mana (energy) to gain his freedom from the heiau. Upon questioning, this warrior knew that his body was dead, but he was enchanted to stay close to the heiau - unless he could find a replacement. Maybe he's still looking for someone ...
A university professor told us that she definitely did NOT believe in ghosts. Yet at the heiau, she described a sudden coldness in her lower abdomen - she described a cold darkness that strengthened with each step around the heiau, to a maximum by the entrance to the main temple. She said that this coldness began to speak to her, and told her that she would be sacrificed. She asked us for help. Upon our questioning, she said that the coldness answered that it did not know that it was disembodied, and did not know that time had passed since the last human sacrifices. (Ho'oponopono often includes some strange conversations.) This woman had no prior knowledge of the Mo'okini heiau - and few people know that on the right of the entrance to the main temple was the Hale Mu - the house of the kahuna who identified and executed sacrificial victims. In these and many other cases, a combination of old Hawaiian ho'oponopono and ho'omanamana ended the strange symptoms. Were they ghosts? Or dehydration? Many people have eerie experiences during visits to a luakini heiau and other strange places. Why not join us in Hawaii and find out for yourself? Waipio Valley . Pu'ukohala Heiau Want to join us in Hawai'i? Hawaiian Spirituality . Ho'oponopono . Huna, Healing and Ohana . Kumulipo . Soulwork Join us under the trees by Kealakekua Bay? Can you come with us into the craters in Volcano Park and swim with us at Waipio? Can you walk with us across the cliffs of Ka Lae and meditate at Mo'okini heiau? Consider joining us in Hawaii. Our classrooms are the beaches, forests and volcanoes. We can help you make Hawaii a journey of a lifetime. E komo mai - welcome - come with us to the most beautiful, most sacred (and most haunted) places on Big Island. Or will you help us bring Hawaii to you? We bring this wisdom to the world under the name of Huna Kalani. Do you want to heal your life? We seek people who wish to bring back this ancient magic.
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