Kapu Aloha
A Kapu Aloha is an order of restraint placed by kahuna (Hawaiian priests) or other Hawaiian cultural practitioners, to act with only kindness, love and empathy. During the ceremonial period (enactment proceedings), alcohol, drugs and tobacco are prohibited. This separates the secular from the sacred and begins the ritual process collectively. Total purity is not attained but enacts a separation of ordinary life to mark the activities as sacred.[1] Manulani Aluli Meyer, in a University of Hawaii panel discussion and commentary states: "A Kapu Aloha is a multidimensional concept and practice inspired by our kupuna. It has been used within a Hawaiian cultural context for many years". The practice initiates a discipline to remain compassionate and for those involved to use only aloha towards others.[2]
Activists and Native Hawaiians use the practice while demonstrating against development on Mauna Kea.[3][4][5][6]
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References
- ^ Ty P. Kāwika Tengan (29 September 2008). Native Men Remade: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai‘i. Duke University Press. pp. 103–4. ISBN 0-8223-8937-1.
- ^ Meyer, Manulani Aluli. "Manulani Aluli Meyer: Kapu Aloha for Maunakea, a discipline of compassion". UH Hilo Stories. University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- ^ Williams, Imani Altemus- (May 5, 2015). "Hawaii's Mauna Kea protectors aim to halt construction on sacred mountain". wagingnonviolence.org. Waging non Violence. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- ^ Wang, Frances Kai-Hwa (April 6, 2015). "Native Hawaiians Arrested in Protests of Massive Telescope". NBC News. NBC News. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
- ^ Teves, Stephanie Nohelani (2015). "Aloha State Apparatuses". American Quarterly. 67 (3): 705–726. doi:10.1353/aq.2015.0046. ISSN 1080-6490.
- ^ Lyons, Paul; Tengan, Ty P. Kāwika (2015). "Introduction: Pacific Currents". American Quarterly. 67 (3): 545–574. doi:10.1353/aq.2015.0033. ISSN 1080-6490.