On 7/8/2015 3:23 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On 7/8/2015 10:12 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 21:55:37 -1000, dsi1
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/7/2015 9:40 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "dsi1" > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>> On 7/7/2015 9:57 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "dsi1" > wrote in message
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It is indeed, life needs a LOT more hugs!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We're one big happy family. The young people call their elders
>>>>>>> "uncle"
>>>>>>> or "auntie" so we do have a tendency to treat others as clan members
>>>>>>> here.
>>>>>>> I suspect it's the same way on all the little rocks across the
>>>>>>> Pacific.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's how it used to be here, but now the youngsters call their
>>>>>> seniors
>>>>>> by
>>>>>> their first names. It is not an improvement.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My wife's auntie came over from Washington state last week. Boy
>>>>>>> was she
>>>>>>> full of hugs and kisses. She was quite a jolly sort. It was not
>>>>>>> what I
>>>>>>> was
>>>>>>> expecting because her son died about 2 months ago. I thought that
>>>>>>> was
>>>>>>> curious but I don't really know her that well. Boy, life is one
>>>>>>> dangerous
>>>>>>> place - any one of us can go at any time!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It was probably a great comfort to her after the loss of her son.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hugging here is not normally a 'close' thing with folk we don't know.
>>>>>> It is on a par with 'air kissing' )
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.wikihow.com/Air-Kiss
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2...s-social-group
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess we're like France in that respect! OTOH, the Maoris will press
>>>>> their foreheads and tips of their noses together and share a breath.
>>>>> That's kind of cool.
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm that could depend on what they had been eating I suppose, but
>>>> no, I
>>>> would hate to exchange breath with anyone
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> You got a very good point there!
>>
>> A great way to transfer diseases, and not just the common cold.
>>
>
> Lono will protect those that worship him!

But first you have to travel to Indiana find him:

http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=1229282


http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/ku/ku06.htm

The word maka, "eye," refers to the constellation of the Pleiades, hiki
is a sign of movement; the word translated liberally hence refers to the
rising of the Pleiades in the heavens corresponding with the time of the
sun's turn northward, bringing warmth again to earth, the growth of
plants, and the spawning of fish. At this time a festival was celebrated
in honor of the fertility god Lono, god of cultivated food plants not
alone in Hawaii but throughout marginal Polynesian islands, and prayed
to in Hawaiian households to send rain and sunshine upon the growing
crops, spawn to fill the fishing stations, offspring to mankind. His
signs were observed in the clouds. Heiau were built to Lono not in time
of war but under stress of famine or scarcity. His worship was mild,
without human sacrifice such as belonged to the severer worship of the
war god Ku. Any man might set up a temple to Lono, a ruling chief alone
to the god Ku as a prayer for success in war, for life in case of
illness, or upon the birth of a first-born son.