April 24
More Very Aloha.
I just finished reading Michener’s Hawaii and I want to share this story, The Meaning Of the Rainbow from hawaiianlife.com:
“The rainbow is the celestial path that the Hawaiian Gods use to come down to earth from the cloud islands. … The rainbow is also perceived as the pathway that the souls of the dead take to travel to the heavenly realms. …
“The rainbow is thus a symbol of transformation, and those who can freely travel between the upper world and the lower reaches live like gods among humans, enjoying earthly prosperity and abundance.
“Featured as a pathway between dimensions in Hawaiian mythology as it does in various cultures round the world, it also acts as a footstool for Malanaikuaheahea, the wife of the legendary transpacific voyager and astronomer whose name, Maliki’i is also the Hawaiian term for the Pleiades star cluster from which the first Hawaiians came to earth.”