With Halloween tomorrow, I kept thinking about how Halloween even came about. With its Celtic origin from the pagan festival Samhain which marked the celebration of the harvest. People would wear costumes and light bonfires so that they were palekana (pronounced “pah-leh-kah-nah”), or protected from ghosts.
Fear or “maka’u” (pronounced: mah-kah-oo) can’t be so debilitating…and so stupid at times. We become so wrapped up in the anxiety and trepidation of something it becomes all consuming. It’s October after all and with Halloween just around the corner, the sense of maka’u is heightened with scary costumes, horror movies, etc.
While Halloween isn’t necessarily a Hawaiian tradition, there are themes of Halloween that are present in Hawaiian culture. Hawaiian legend is filled with spirits and gods. Some of that can inspire fear, or weliweli (pronounced: weh-lee-weh-lee) into people.
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