“We have watched our precious cultural assets, our physical connection to our ancestors, our places of remembering—all go up in smoke.” said one expert quoted by RozLaPier on the MauiFires.
Kihawahine, a woman who transformed into a moʻo goddess
, or a supernatural shapeshifting lizard in Hawaiian religion. Her primary home was in a fishpond at Mokuʻula, a small island in Lahaina that was considered a “piko,” or center of traditional religious and political activity. Native Hawaiian royalty lived nearby to be near Kihawahine and her supernatural power.is also connected to King Kamehameha.
Sugarcane companies diverted the waters that fed the fishpond and freshwater springs at Mokuʻula for irrigation, which caused the fishpond to dry up. In the ensuing years, Lahaina became the capital of the newly unified Kingdom of Hawaii under Kamehameha and his descendants’ rule. The capital remained in Lahaina until 1845, when King Kamehameha III relocated it to Honolulu, Oahu.changed dramatically with the coming of American colonization and capitalism to the Island of Maui in the 19th century.
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