Hula Girls and Tiki Gods: Hau'oli Makahiki Hou

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Monday, December 30, 2013

"Hau' Oli Makahiki Ho" ( Happy New Year, in Hawaiian )

"HAU' OLI MAKAHIKI HO" MEANS "HAPPY NEW YEAR" IN HAWAIIAN.
THE "MAKAHIKI" IN HAWAIIAN HISTORY WAS A FOUR MONTH TIME OF PEACE AND PROSPERITY, WHEN WAR WAS 'KAPU' ( FORBIDDEN ) AND WORK WAS MEANT TO BE LIGHT. IT WAS A TIME FOR CELEBRATING THE HARVEST AND "LONO" THE HAWAIIAN TIKI GOD OF FERTILITY AND RAIN. TODAY THE MAKAHIKI IS STILL CELEBRATED WITH FESTIVALS APPROXIMATELY BETWEEN THE MONTHS OF OCTOBER TO FEBRUARY.

Monday, December 27, 2010

" Hau'oli Makahiki Hou " ( means Happy New Year in Hawaiian )

DURING MAKHIKI, THE FOUR MONTHS OF PEACE AND HAPPINESS,
IS THE SAME TIME THE WESTERN NEW YEAR FALLS.
"HAU'OLI MAKAHIKI HOU" ( HAPPY NEW YEAR)
HAU'OLI MEANS "HAPPY". MAKHIKI, ALSO KNOWN AS "YEAR".

The back story...

Twenty years of living and creating art in Hawaii has driven me to reflect on the "Polynesian Pop Culture" also known as, "Tiki Culture". It first came to America in the 1930s, and it is a unique offshoot that is inspired in part by Tiki carvings and mythology of the Polynesian and South Pacific islands, though the connection is loose and stylistic. The Tiki rode a wave of popularity in the late 1950s and early 1960s marked by the entrance of Hawaii as the 50th state in 1959 and the introduction of Tiki hut bars and restaurants around the continental United States. Then the mid 1990s saw the beginning of a revival of the Tiki culture, and it's still going strong.