Wākea

Makua is a valley and a beach located on the west side of Oahu.

It is a place known as where Papa and Wakea, who is the Earth Mother and the Sky Father, they're two deities, they came together and gave birth to people.

Makua means parent, so Makua is a place of origins in native Hawaiian moʻolelo, which means stories and histories.

It later is known as a fishing village and a ranch, and a place where the trains stopped in the 1800s, where there was a train that circled around the island.

And in the distance, above Honolulu, the extinct crater called Punchbowl could be seen, out of which the gods of old no doubt drank and made merry.

An ancient Hawaiian myth of the creation tells how Wakea, the beginning, married Papa, the earth, and they lived in darkness until Papa produced a gourd calabash.

Wakea threw its cover into the air, and it became heaven.

The pulp and seeds formed the sky, the sun, moon, and stars.

The juice was the rain, and out of the bowl the land and sea were created.

Their vessels, which were double canoes, like those of the modern Samoans, were from 50 to 100 feet long and carried a large company of people, with provisions, animals, idols, and everything that was needed for a long voyage or for colonizing a strange island.

The legends of that earliest time tell of Hawaii Loa, who sailed from the west to the islands, which he named for himself.

The coming of Wakea and Papa also belong to that period.

And for us, it's part of our genesis stories, our creation stories.

It was the first child born of Papahānaumoku and Wākea, which is the, the, the earth mother and the sky father.

And so we see the mountain as the eldest of all of our siblings.

So the image of, of all these things being built in this area, we see it almost like cancer.