Bringing Down the Water
Water is...
philosophically, spiritually
water is sacred,
it is Kāne I ka wai ola, the life giving
waters of Kāne.
Out in Wai‘anae especially-
and in places where there is not much water-
you really see it like blood,
like the blood in your body,
the koko.
Just as our bodies would die if we had no blood,
so the land would die if the water was gone.
The water on the land, the blood in our bodies
are the same.
It has to flow
as the blood in our bodies has to flow
the water on the land has to flow.
The constant cycle of renewal
just as new blood is constantly being reproduced
and all these things the blood requires,
so does the water.
The rain and the water are life giving.
That's the sacredness.
Reference Cited
State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR). 2003. Wao Akua: Sacred Source of Life. Division of Forestry & Wildlife. Honolulu, HI.
