Post #62014 by Rattiki on Tue, Nov 25, 2003 9:16 AM

On 2003-11-25 00:04, filslash wrote:
Aloha,

The hula is stilll very hot, and amazing. And so is she...but, lets point the right finger...

I have no degree, but I have a Hawaiian History school book. Published in 1939, and part of a book rental fund called "Old Time Hawaiians" by Mary S. Lawrence.

pp.140-144-Briefly...

KAMEHAMEHA II, WHO OVERTHREW IDOLATRY.

Liholiho, Kamehameha II was born in Hilo.

1919-

Ten days after the first Kamehameha's death he became King. Kaahumanu, the former kings wife, and his mom asked him to abolish the tabus. Remember some high chiefs, and priests had lost faith already. There was a huge luau, Liholiho got a bit drunk...He ate next to his mother, and let mans food be offered to the women, and visa-versa, a tabu...The gods did not strike everyone dead, and so the old ways were over. Some didn't agree, and raised army's. Many died.

1820-

Missionaries arrive...

The kapu of women eating in front of men was broken by him but the destruction of Hawaiiian culture was due to the western influence and the strong belief by the missionaries that Hawaii's culture of surfing, hula, public nudity, open adultury and ritual sex were all major sins. The hula of old was a very sexual dance and doesn't look anything like the modern hula, in movement or dress. Read Blue Horizons or other books about the tropical Pacific before the Prodestant Missionaries came and ruined the exotic and erotic Pacific cultures. At one time the Polynesian cultures were considered the most openly sexual in the world. Now many of the smaller Pacific Islands are more socially conservative than a Baptist Bible Belt dry county and you have to go to Rio or Havana to experience such debatch delights! :wink:

Do a search on the hula and you will find such things as this, and many other articles about the subject.
http://www.blackmagic.com/ses/surf/papers/surfhistory.html

[ Edited by: Rattiki on 2003-11-25 09:24 ]