by Kahuna Keonaona
Aloha kakou! (compassion to us all)
Kahuna Nui Max Freedom Long asked that we remember him on his birthday. That’s this Thursday, October 26th.
After Kahuna Max’s death in 1971, Kahuna Lani created the Day of Remembrance Holy Day to remember, not only Kahuna Max, but also those of our Huna lineage who dwell in the Dreamworld, and all our beloved dead – friends, families and animal companions.
The Day of Remembrance serves to remind us of our body’s mortality and soul’s immortality, as we are all on a Path of Evolutionary Consciousness. We consider this a duty to our beloved dead, as we hope that those who live after us, will turn around and do the same for us.
The Day of Remembrance is also a time to resolve any outstanding conflicts we may have with someone who has died.
The Altar
Photographs of our beloved dead are placed on our altars beside a cup filled with `awa infused with mana. My altar has photos of my parents, friends and other family members, as well as William Tufts Brigham, Kahuna Max (Prayer), Kahuna Fred Kimball (Clairesthesia), Kahuna Vern Cameron (Aurameter Dowsing), Kahuna Beau Kitselman (Aumakua Therapy), Kahuna Bill Cox (Aurameter Dowsing), Kahuna Paka (Firewalking), and Kahuna Lani.
There is no particular requirement that you feel particularly compassionate or loving to the people you choose to honor and remember. However, you may want to consider to include others.
As Kahuna Lani taught us, we are all mistakers, doing the best we can. And when we can do better, we will.
Mana
There is no mana in the Dreamworld, and without mana, one cannot create new thoughts. So once a year, after dark on the Day of Remembrance, we offer mana to our beloved dead. We do this by infusing mana into a mixture of water and `awa (kavakava root powder), in an `awa ceremony.
The `Awa Ceremony
If `awa is not available, gin is a suitable substitute. (The Goddess, Madame Pele, has been known to like gin, and bottles were often tossed into her Mt. Kilauea as an offering, ho`okupu).
We usually celebrate after dark. Our beloved deads’ spirits are invited to join us, and when the presence of their spirits is felt, it is time to recount publicly or silently the ways in which they have enriched our lives.
Over the years, relationships that were in conflict and filled with anger or hostility have transformed into ones filled with aloha. Hearts have been uplifted as contact with our beloved dead is established and love flows once again.
Remembering
Hunians choose to remember those things about a person that have helped us in some way. This can be bittersweet and spontaneous. Kahuna Lani smoked a specific pipe tobacco. People around the world have reported smelling Captain Black Gold.
This is an opportunity to acknowledge the inter-connectedness and compassion, the aloha we [share] between us.
Hunian Proverb
As Kahuna Oscar Brunler, the Lorefounder of Psychometric Analysis has written:
Life cannot slay, Life is not slain.
Never the spirit was born.
The spirit shall cease to be: never.
Never was time, it was not.
End and Beginning are dreams.
Birthless and deathless and
Changeless, yet evolving,
Remaineth the spirit forever.
Death has not touched it at all,
Dead though the house of it seems.
Kahuna Keonaona
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