Aloha Across the Sea
The past becomes the present
Aloha KAHEA `Ohana,please join with us in offering prayers of success and safety for our Pacific Voyagers. Please check out their website and track and support their awesome journey of hope and inspiration! Also, check out the trailer for "Our Blue Canoe" the film that is being made about their epic voyage--so inspiring!
Aloha Pumehana Pacific Voyagers,
We wish to take this time to honor you all, our Brothers and Sisters of Polynesia and the Pacific and all those of like spirit, on your great journey of hope. When you arrived on our shores we were able to share, even if only in small part, the incredible inspiration that you all bring. We offer our deepest gratitude for your courage, strength, vision and Aloha! For we recognize, you take this journey for the greater good of the Honua (Earth) and all its inhabitants, including our beloved Kanaloas (Marine Mammals and Ocean `Ohana).
As we here on Hawai`i Island and across Ka Pae `Āina, prepare for our legal proceeding to save our sacred Mountain – known as Mauna Kea or Mauna a Wakea, we draw so much inspiration from your journey of hope and Aloha. Mauna Kea represents many things to the people, as it is the abode of the Akua (supreme Creator), the place where Papa (Earth Mother) and Wākea (Sky Father) come together, and where the Akua (gods), retrieved the knowledge of the Heavens and brought it down to the people, so they could learn the ways of the Heavens and keep the laws of the Aloha `Āina, (love of the land and seas) alive.
While we cannot express our deep gratitude in a simple letter, please know that you are in our prayers of Aloha from Mauna Kea and we pray for the successful completion of your great journey and your safe return to your home islands and `Ohana.
Aloha nō,
Ms. Kealoha Pisciotta, President of KAHEA
On Behalf of the Mauna Kea Hui, the Hui includes:
- KAHEA: The Hawaiian Environmental Alliance, is an environmental and cultural advocacy group made up of Kupuna, Cultural Practitioners, Environmentalist, Scientist, and over 12,000 supporters, moving for a more Beautiful, Clean, Healthful , Sustainable and Just Hawai`i.
- Mauna Kea Anaina Hou, is a Native Hawaiian Organization, dedicated to protecting and persevering the customary and traditional practices of Mauna Kea for future generations.
- Kumu Hula, Mr. Paul K. Neves, Individual Hawaiian Cultural Practitioner
- Ms. Debbie Ward, Naturalist, Environmentalist, and Recreational User
- Kū (Kūkauakahi) Ching, Individual Native Hawaiian Cultural Practitioner
- Flores-Case ‘Ohana, a family of Kanaka Maoli Educators and Cultural Practitioners
Photo credit: Armando Zohrabian
