- Genre:fiction
- Sub-genre:Cultural Heritage
- Language:English
- Pages:316
- eBook ISBN:9781483516585
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Overview
Akin O'Rono has authored “Secret of the Heiau” in hopes of inspiring young Hawaiian minds to discover for themselves the scientific modes which are included with the many ley line models presented. Cartography, astronomy, geography, mathematics, archaeology, geology, surveying and historic preservation are the major disciplines to be gained from the study of O'Ahu's archaeoastronomy. Exploring Hawaiian Heiau ley lines can influence the esoteric study of meditation and spirituality. Geoelectromagnetism and Hawaii's own sacred geometry are the foundational scientific fields to be discovered.
Akin O'Rono presents numerous ley line examples for the Island of O'Ahu. The nature of these ley lines and Secret of the Heiau unfolds amidst a haunting memory of a national tragedy. The main character, Rono Kino has begun teaching his young grandson the problems and feelings of pride and satisfaction of being Hawaiian and importance of learning the scholarly discipline to understand how the Heiau were built on straight lines to one another and why the alignments were sacred because they honored the stars that guided the first people to Hawaii.
The premise of the existence of multilayers of ley line models of O'Ahu is easy if you understand the navigational stars that brought the first people here once here didn't need these stars for navigation anymore and turned them into calendar stars and built stone temples aligned to notable landforms where these stars would rise and set so that knowledge would never be lost.
Akin O'Rono envisions the Bishop Museum Planetarium in Honolulu helping to associate the known navigational stars with the alignments of Heiau ley lines to educate Hawaii's youth about the knowledge possessed by early Hawaiians which is far more extensive than they are credited. This is a unique way to push young Hawaiians to study, explore, think and write more than they have done because now they know the highly intelligent stock from which they come.
The backdrop to revealing this never before published information follows the angry psyche of a self proclaimed time keeping kahuna for his participation in a ancient ritual gone awry brought to that point by the Hawaiian – Military - Japanese investors conflict. Sheer coincidence saw the fruition of this ritual but greatly disturbed and saddened an entire nation. This format was chosen to show the gamut of how Native Hawaiian feelings towards the disclosing of what some would describe as sensitive information runs a continuum of simmering hate to the grandiose feeling of Aloha sold to the Hawaiian tourism industry.
Hawaii has the concept of earth, man and sky working together for the good of all. This is called Lokahi. Lokahi is the realm of Aloha. There is no room for simmering hate in Lokahi. “The concept of earth, man and sky reached a pinnacle of precision before the foreigners came and to understand the template of the Heiau System is to see in full manifest the celestial harmonies that Stonehenge and the Pyramids attempted but could not fully achieve.
When Akin O'Rono left Maine in 1975, there was building conflict between Maine's two major tribes and non-native communities over the massive land claim the Penobscots and Passamaquoddy Tribes had taken into Federal Court. Arriving in Hawaii similar events were taking place in Waikane and Waiahole Valleys on O'Ahu. This conflict between the Hawaiians, the US Military and Japanese land investors forms the core of Secret of the Heiau. Akin O'Rono gives the reader a native view of the issues, political and racial, that has plagued the Hawaiian community's since the advent of the foreigners and the anger shown is the face of true hate and the worse sin of jealousy no matter the reasoning, logic or excuses used to justify long forgotten rituals summoned from beyond the grave. This book Secret of the Heiau is a fictional story based on those issues and that experience.
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Of places like Stonehenge, the Pyramids, Inca and Mayan Temples, Nazca lines, it’s the Hawaiian Heiau, which yields the most knowledge from their study. The Archaeoastronomy found on O’Ahu is spectacular. “To describe the beauty in the symmetry of O‘Ahu’s Heiau Template and how the site experts, the Kahuna Kuhi Kuhi Puuone, who designed the system is like trying to describe the Big Chip in the celestial heavens. The one God used in His computer to design the Earth.” The Secret of the Heiau” is a wealth of Native Beliefs It is so awesome, how Hawaiians had the mathematical and technical ability to build the O’Ahu Template of Places of Worship known as Heiau. They were first class surveyors with the highest degree of competence. Students of Hawaii Studies are the ones to complete the big picture of archaeoastronomy in Hawaii. This book is intended for the upper high school and college students and really anyone interested in Hawaiiana. This is a novel Archaeoas'rono'my in Hawaii primer. To be hip about Hawaii, this book needs to be read and understood. Early Polynesian Wayfarers used navigational stars to guide them across the Pacific. Travel from Tahiti and Bora Bora used specific navigational stars to sail to Hawaii. Once landed in Hawaii, navigational stars not needed for navigation any more, were turned into calendar stars. Monuments were built to honor their rising and setting places. This knowledge is etched in stone in that Heiau were built on straight ley lines to one another and significant landforms so this knowledge would never be lost. The main character Rono, is favored by Hawaiians Spirits and the Aumakuas because of a connection to Lono Makua, the Hawaiian God for rain, fertility, agriculture and peace. These Spiritual entities protect and take revenge if necessary for Rono. Unfortunately there are fatalities when Hawaiian Spirits are summoned by Rono to inflict pain upon a University of Hawaii grad student and fatalities resulting in the bad part of the Secret of the Heiau is also of Rono's doing. Rono is teaching his grandson, Lono, everything he knows about Heiau and the rituals performed there while explaining the complexities and idiosyncrasies of being a timekeeper kahuna stuck in the days and ways of the People of Old but living in the modern world. Rono knows Hawaiian Spirits have taken an interest in Lono and when Lono gets angry at his brother, his brother is critically injured, and made handicap for life. More evidence of spiritual protection is when a security guards mishandled Lono and has a fatal accident. After this Lono knows how important it is to control his anger. And Lono is full of questions. Whenever Lono asks his grandfather specific questions about space and astronomy, Rono always brakes down. Lono knows even though the Secret of the Heiau is to make Hawaiians realize how smart are the people they come from and how smart they must really be, he knows there is a very bad part to it. A romance develops with a beautiful Japanese lady, thirty years Rono’s junior. She is infatuated with Rono’s knowledge of the hidden Hawaii. It seems this lady is the answer to Rono’s Vision Quest he had when he was a young man in the State of Maine. Over time this evolves into a lover’s dream but the bad part could very well drive Rono’s lover away This bad part has lots of bad karma associated with it and takes Rono’s absolute peace and true happiness away from him. There are many life’s lesson and unique native perspective in the Secret of the Heiau.
