<<<The results of their actions remain to this day. The term ****ing haole is still in wide use.>>>>
The Hawaiian monarchy lasted less than 100 years yet many Hawaiians blame the white man for destroying it. I ask, what heritage is it that they want to go back to?
The following is a brief episode of the life of Obookiah who was instrumental in the coming of the missionaries in the early 1800's. The end result was Hawaii becoming one of the very few nations of the world that turned from serving idols to that of the living God. Of course things have changed. Remember a few years back....The Year of the Hawaiian?
....The father, taking his wife and two children, fled to the mountains. There he concealed himself for several days with his family in a cave. But, at length, being driven by thirst to leave their retreat, they went in quest of water to a neighboring spring. Here they were surprised by a party of the enemy while in the act of quenching their thirst. The father, obeying the first impulse of nature, fled, but the cries of his wife and children soon brought him back again for their protection. But seeing the enemy near, again he fled. The enemy seeing the affection of the father of this family, having seized his wife and children, put them to torture, in order to decoy him from his retreat. The artifice succeeded. Unable to bear the piercing cries of his family, again he appeared, and fell into their hands, and with his wife, was cut in pieces. While this was going on, Obookiah being then a lad of about twelve years, took his infant brother upon his back and attempted to make his escape. But he was pursued, and his little brother pierced through with a Pahooa, or spear while on his back. He himself was saved alive, because he was not young enough to give them trouble, nor old enough to excite their fears. Now being a prisoner in the hands of the enemy, was taken home to the house of the very man who murdered his parents.
A few years later in New England
Upon the first instruction given him concerning the true God he became very sensibly impressed with the Indicrous nature of idol worship. Smiling at its absurdity, he said "Hawaii gods! they wood, burn. Me go home, put 'em in a fire, burn 'em up. They no see, no hear, no any thing" -then added. "We make them -Our God, (looking up,) he make us."
-Memoirs of Obookiah, Opukahaia |
