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Publication Date: November 6, 2014
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Hawaiki Rising2016.11.14The trailers for Disney's Moana show a gorgeous age long past; sunkissed people and clear turquoise oceans, big ocean going catamarans leaping the waves like dolphins, the sun shining through their sails, navigators knowing the way by the stars, the swells, and the flight of birds. The whole thing is backed up with the Polynesian drums, language and song of a group called Te Vaka, which means, simply, the canoe.The canoe, the big double hulled wa'a, waka or vaka (depending which island you hail from) is what defines Polynesia. It is the icon of the skills they honed with what we westerners like to refer to as "stone age" technology... technology that allowed them to settle flyspecks of land across the vast Pacific while the rest of us were terrified to sail out of sight of land (except maybe the Vikings, but that's another tale). Technology that fascinated Captain Cook in his huge clunky tall ship as they sailed rings around him.As a kid, I read Kon Tiki, in which a descendant of Vikings, Thor Heyerdahl, set out from South America to show how the Polynesians might have drifted with the winds and currents to islands... It was a ripping good yarn, but it was bogus. Thor's boat was a raft with a square sail, it could neither be steered nor navigated. It finally crashed on an atoll. They survived and the whole thing went down in popular culture as "case solved".There were plenty of folks who knew that's not how the Polynesians did it. There was another story.Hawaiki Rising is that story. A ripping good true life sea yarn about a diverse bunch of people who come together in an ohana wa'a, a family of the canoe, in Hawaii. The family is not without its strife, its dissensions. But there is something about a boat...There is a song, blue boat home, in which our little blue planet is compared to a ship sailing through space. My own 18 foot kayak is blue, as are some of my favorite larger boats. On a boat, you are keenly aware of the environment, the shape of wind and waves and the movements of wildlife. Your life may depend on them, on knowing that that towering cloud over the Chesapeake Bay is nothing to worry about, because the wind is blowing it away from you.Or that you all need to row like hell right now to get to the dock before Thor starts slaying frost giants. (true story, Viking longship, middle aged and minimal crew).The other thing you learn on a boat is ohana wa'a. If you do not work together, somebody's gonna die. Maybe all of you. You become very aware of your interdependence.Hawaiki Rising tells the story of Hokule'a, and her ohana wa'a, the people who dreamed her, built her, sailed her and navigated her in the old way that had nearly been lost. She became an icon of Polynesian culture, a culture that was adrift, that had suffered centuries of oppression and lost much of itself. Everywhere she landed people came out and cheered, sang, or stood watch silently, absorbing the wonder of this vision from the past.This is the story of her beginning years. Over forty years ago she set sail. Sailors and navigators have learned on her, children have touched the past and the future on her. People of all cultures have touched something... something that connects us to our own blue boat home.This summer, our wakes crossed paths. I have paddled the shallows at the head of the Chesapeake Bay, pointed my kayak's bow toward the colorful layers of sand in the bluffs at Turkey Point, followed the glow of a small lighthouse back home. I drifted among the lotus on the Sassafras River, watched damselfly nymphs shapeshift into damselflies as they emerged from the shallows. Saw fins surface at the end of my paddle blade in the waters off Eastern Neck Island (not sharks, as I thought, but cownosed rays). I rowed, with others, a Viking longship on the mighty Potomac, and chased another one down to Blackistone Island. (and got lost, my navigation skills being far less than the skills of those in this book). I sailed under the Bay Bridge on a reproduction of a 1769 tall ship, Sultana, photographing her 18th century rigging against the modern rigging of the bridge. For a moment, as a guest, I steered the 1812 privateer Pride of Baltimore II in the middle of that bay. I photographed, amazed, the weirdness on deck as she heeled under a ripping good wind.Something wa'as never do.Hokule'a traveled those waters this summer, waters I know a little of. I, sadly, did not catch her at any of her few stops.I did become aware of the legend she is.Hawaiki Rising is a ripping good yarn of the sea, but it is more than that, it is about The Hero Journey we all take through life. We see her journey through the eyes of the people who built and sailed her, fascinating people you want to go hang out with. The main eyes we see this tale through are those of Nainoa Thompson, a young Hawaiian who becomes fascinated by the ship and the ancient navigation skills that no Hawaiian remembers. Skills still preserved on the tiny island of Satawal, by the last navigator, Mau Piailug.Today, Nainoa is the president of the Polynesian Voyaging Society, Hokule'a is on the last leg of her worldwide voyage, "The Hawaiian name for this voyage, MÄlama Honua, means “to care for our Earth.†Living on an island chain teaches us that our natural world is a gift with limits and that we must carefully steward this gift if we are to survive together."and this..."On March 18, 2007, Mau Piailug inducted five Hawaiians and eleven Micronesians into Pwo, the ninth of fifteen degrees in the Weriyeng School of Navigation of Micronesia. The five Hawaiians were given the honor and responsibility of carrying on Mau’s teachings. Pwo, as explained to Nainoa Thompson is light, love, kindness and compassion. If there are conflicts, the navigator must resolve them; if there is sickness, the navigator’s responsibility is to heal; if there is damage, the navigator must repair it. His kuleana is to sail and bring back gifts to his home island."This is the story of the wa'a, the people, and the resurgence of ancient skills... and what they mean to us, now, in our industrial age. An age where we are floundering, foundering under the very real threat of climate change. Where navigator Mau's islands are vanishing under the rising sea, as are Tangier and Smith islands in our own Chesapeake Bay, islands Hokule'a visited this summer.This is not a story about the past, but about a perspective, a point of view. A way to see the world that will help us navigate into the future.I hope that when Moana hits the big screen, kids and adults everywhere will learn not only about a fantastic period of human history, of fabulous courage and skills and exploration, but that they will explore farther than toys and coloring books... that they will read the books, watch the documentaries, and learn something about the ohana wa'a and how this one small boat connects us to our moana, our ocean world.
Extraordinary Story.I am still reading this book. I read it in pieces because it's so extraordinary. I absorb it. It reminds me to steer by the many signs I get everyday and tells the phenomenal story of the Hokule'a but more importantly the deep, encompassing, soul searching story of navigator Nainoa Thompson. I am deeply touched by this book.I am an islander from New Zealand, but Hawai'i is my American home state. I'm also a writer and wanted to include Hokule'a coming home after her round the world voyage. And what I thought would be an interesting story and give me some good facts about the Hokule'a and her Nainoa has turned into a voyage of discovery for myself. It is so much more than a story.It's like a modern day bible for every islander who is always called home to the sea. Who feels like they're literally a fish out of water when they're not near it. Who feel like they can breathe when they're close to the ocean, in it, on it.The story of Nainoa Thompson in this is riveting. What an unbelievable man. Hearing his feelings, thoughts, ups and downs on such a real, and vulnerable level has touched me deeply. It feels like such a degree of honesty we see so rarely and one I personally value immensely.Be prepared to be taken on a journey... This book is one I will own in Hardback and always go back to refer to when I need a direction. It will be like Polaris the North Star. Mahalo nui loa. Aloha Meg Amor
This is an extremely well written and objective book chronicling the long and devoted efforts of the members of the Polynesian Voyaging Society(PVS) of Hawai'i to construct and sail the traditional Hokule'a canoe using traditional methods. The book is a monument to all members of the society, but especially to the Micronesian, Mau Piailug, who patiently taught the sacred navigation techniques of his culture to the PVS personnel , and to Nainoa Thompson who studied under Mau and who invested enormous energy translating these techniques into modern astronomical terms. It's also a monument to Eddie Aikau, who lost his life bravely trying to save his shipmates after a near disaster on the high seas.The book is based on first hand accounts, excerpts from logs and diaries of participants, and on the author's own personal experiences aboard. These sources are skillfully combined by the author in such a way that the reader feels he is actually present. Low does not shy away from the many interpersonal problems that developed in the course of this project, but he provides very balanced descriptions of all relations aboard, The book dispels, once and for all , the "theory" that the islands of Polynesia were discovered by accident: the discoveries and settlements were largely the results of systematic explorations. This book is a masterpiece: one hopes that Sam Low will continue to write further on the subject, recounting his own personal experiences! It is most highly recommended for all students of Pacific prehistory as well as for Hawaiian cultural course from the high school level and above.
Renaissance is not too strong a word to describe how a large catamaran canoe in the Polynesian style brought together a dedicated team of Hawaiians of mixed races. First they built her Then they learned how to sail her around Hawaii. Finally they were taught the secrets of navigating her on a long distance voyage 2400 miles south to Tahiti by a visiting navigator from the Solomon Islands. Mau, as he is called , early on gives up on the crew as too modern and too selfish to blend together into a functioning crew.But Nainoa Thompson perseveres in recreating the means to read the stars and the sea in the ancient way. Mau ‘s fears that his art will be lost with him when he dies are assuaged by Nainoa’s study and mastery of the old skills. His best lesson to the Hawaiians is to build confidence in their original culture through successful completion of two voyages to Tahiti. The. Hawaiians don’t have to apologize any more.
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