Creation and Re-creation : The First Hawaiian Christian Prayer
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article31493
- Author
- Chun, Malcolm Naea, 1954-2019
- Journal
- First Peoples Theology Journal
- Date
- 2001 September
- Journal
- First Peoples Theology Journal
- Date
- 2001 September
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 1
- Page
- 115-117
- Notes
- The author reproduces the "first" recorded Hawaiian Christian prayer of Ka'eleowaipi'o. "It is recorded that Ka'eleowaipi'o replaced the words of an anaana [sorcery] prayer with that of a Christian prayer. This prayer is called "Kuaikulani'. It is a prayer of salvation and a prayer used on a day of trouble or distress. [Text of prayer in Hawaiian and English.] In this fine example of liturgical indigenization we see how the creative mind, albeit genius, has been able to weave appropriate cultural elements and the proper ritual, that is the usage of the death prayer style of chanting as a form of negation for a new prayer to invoke life. There is very little of such patterns of liturgical development thereafter. A truly Native Hawaiian church needed and needs the elements that recognize and incorporate leadership and governance; the native usage of language; the appropriate and proper usage of traditional ritual and cultural elements, and the development of trust. That is what the forgotten voices hidden in the genius of this prayer speaks to us of, today" (p. 117).
- Author is a Native Hawaiian and a lay member of the Episcopal Church. [Author ordained a deacon in 2011 and priested in 2012.]
- Subjects
- Hawaiians - Religion
- Liturgical adaptation - Episcopal Church
- Christianity and culture - Episcopal Church
- Christianity and culture - Hawaii
- Native spirituality - Episcopal Church
- Ka'eleowaipi'o