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ANCIENT HAWAIIAN SPIRITS

The Angry Hawaiian Man at Iolani Palace

Elizabeth Kahele Manawaola St. John

Experiences with Ancient Hawaiian Spirits

When I first started spiritually venturing out, one of the greatest experiences was encountering native Hawaiian spirits from ancient times. I was never – like “ever” – interested in history at all, which I’ve come to see as a good thing only because what I’ve come to experience spiritually, was not swayed or influenced from what I already knew. In any case, however, I always try to go about the spiritual objectively because I’m of the physical too and have my good level of skepticism and need to get proof of things I experience too. My best friend John, was a highly spiritual Hawaiian, as was his kahuna grandfather, but John kept his spiritual side hidden except for those few that were very close to him, but nobody knew just what he could do and to what extent. He was a big Hawaiian, standing at least 6-feet tall (his grandfather was even taller) and quite intimidating. Though he and I was so opposite in so many ways, we became really close friends (knew each other from work) and discovered that we had a strong spiritual connection and that we had a lot of the spiritual itself in common. He was my spiritual brother and bodyguard at times, and we spiritually went on a lot of ventures together. There were a bunch of times though that we’d each go out on our own, of course, and one of those times I was out there, I saw a Hawaiian spirit, a man, from ancient times. I really found that so interesting because for a while I was accustomed to seeing spirits that were ‘regular’ so to speak, whether from past eras, to the more recent times. I can’t recall just where I first seen them but it was somewhere away from development, like at Sandy’s beach park or someplace. Since then, I started paying attention and on the lookout for these Hawaiian spirits. Being born and raised in Hawaii and hearing stories and legends, made me think that I might now be able to see behind all that and what it’s like, at least spiritually, that is. There were SO many experiences with them that I’ll have to just impart them to you in a roundabout sort of away at times with stories of experiences we/I encountered. In my physical life, I’ve always had a natural fondness of Hawaiian people, finding a lot of them – in my experience – to be warm and giving people; people I felt really comfortable around and spiritually connected, not just with them, but myself as well. Going around to places where there isn’t too much development like near the beaches/ocean, parks like Moanalua Gardens, then schools, etc., is where we encountered more and more Hawaiians. Spiritually, there are many villages out there still occupied by native Hawaiian spirits. And speaking of Moanalua Gardens, I actually saw this one Hawaiian guy there that was a warrior and really nice and likes to take walks around that park, and how can anyone blame em, it’s so cool and breezy there, just such a beautiful place. Though there were some natives that walk around Moanalua Gardens Park or pass through, behind the park is indeed an elementary school, and on the side nearby that school at the slope of that hill – at least ‘had’ a stream or river where the women and children would go to wash their clothing and get cleaned up while the children played, and they’d be accompanied by couple men of the family to watch over them. There is also what looked like a small heiau I saw or what looked like a small heiau that was like on a stage or platform of dirt and rocks around that looked more like whitish rocks…? (Go figure, I don’t know how else to explain other than what I saw.) At some time or another, I ventured into the valley and encountered an older man who is some kind of authoritative person with the warriors, and after couple visits and having explained who I am and being there to experience them, hoping to someday share what they’re like with people, one day he took me up to their warrior camp that is way in the valley and hidden. There’s a hidden trail that takes rather unpredictable turns up the hill and they gather there for their secret meetings, hang outs, and whatever. It’s not a big place but rather small and kinda sits on the trail, so to speak. Right there is also a cave there where they store things, like weapons, and whatever. It’s not a big cave, maybe one regular sized person can fit inside but it’s not to accompany anyone, more to store things. They also had stored meat, like beef jerky kind of meat that they’d store and snack on. I’m sure there are more warrior camps but that was just one of em that I’ve been to, and lucky to have had the privilege because women are not allowed. All those spirits I’ve encountered in that valley are very nice and warm spirits. And sometimes, having spirit friends out there benefits me physically, because just a few years ago, my daughter was sent by ambulance to Kaiser Hospital experiencing a miscarriage, and after being with her in the ER, she was going to be examined so I went outside the hospital for some fresh air because I was upset, not knowing she was hapai and why there was no means of birth control, but I had to waive those feelings and be there for her, being she was feeling so scared while her boyfriend was saying he’s diggin' out like Spiderman if he sees ‘dad’s’ truck coming which helped lighten the mood. So with mixed feelings, I wanted to be alone for a while and gain more balance. That’s when thought to myself, oh boy, I hope there won’t be spirits coming around me because I’m really not in the mood to deal with them right now because hospitals always has a lot of unhappy and unhealthy spirits, and I wasn’t in the mood for them coming around me. Well, as I stood out there in my own company, I started feeling the place, at least in the whole area I was at, was ‘clear’ of spirits, like not one. I looked toward the ER and there were none looking out the window at me or from the adjacent wing, and I thought how odd, how really odd. Then I sensed ‘something’ at a bit of a distance behind, so I turned around and I was literally stunned to see my Hawaiian spirit friends from Moanalua Valley that I actually haven’t seen in few years from when I used to always venture out. They had formed a human circle around the side of the hospital I was at that was about 100 yards away (?) that kept all other spirits clear from my environment. They were all looking at me and smiling, and I felt so overwhelmed and just ‘honored’ to experience something like that. I was really blown away. The energies there that night was outstanding. And after several minutes, I was able to go back inside and my daughter turned out just fine and she was able to go home soon after. What an experience.

The Spirits of Moanalua Valley

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Though it doesn’t really matter whether its day or night, I prefer to spiritually go out at night because I’ve always loved the night, and at least for me, the energies are way better at night. Most spirits come out mainly at night than the daytime because they too, do not like the hustle and bustle type energies that accompany daytime. So most of the times spirits pretty much stay clear, let us have our day, then start coming out when the physical energies begin getting calmer. This is the reason why so many profound paranormal energies take place around the 2-3 o’clock hour because the physical energies in the environment is way down, allowing the spiritual to be their strongest. And during that time is when physically we are not at our strongest, therefore more open to experience the spiritual, even while we are sleep, and remember. First stop, Ulupo Heiau, Kailua. I was asked to check out Ulupo Heiau and Kawainui Marsh because a bunch of them was planning to do some field investigations and exploring there. There wasn’t much that happened at those two places but it’s always an interesting experience. And this one outing prompted a lineup of unexpected experiences. When I got there, standing on the top of the heiau with a staff was an older man, a “kupuna”, looking like he was overseeing everyone and everything. There were other spirits walking around on the side at the base of the heiau, doing ‘chores’. It wasn’t long at all before he saw me and came down. Oftentimes, it’s the older figure of authority in an area or village notices me first, whether they’re a chief or leader of a group, a kahuna, or whatever. Maybe it’s the one most spiritually in tuned, I guess. Anyway, although I’ve never met him or even been to Ulupo before, he obviously knew about me from a group of spirits from a mountainside village in Kailua that I’ve visited several times years ago. (Sometimes it’s like that.) I found him to be such a warm spirit and we got along right from the start, as if we knew each other for a long time. I told him that I have some friends planning on coming down one night soon to see their heiau and Kawainui Marsh, which is why I was there. And now that I had let them know and see that he and his people are there and are non-threatening, I want to go see Kawainui Marsh. I didn’t like Kawainui Marsh area because years ago, my daughter and I took a relaxing drive around the island, and in Kailua, I took the wrong turn and ended up driving through Kawainui Marsh, and we both really didn’t like the feeling in that area at the time. It felt like we were driving forever to get back around to the highway, and once we saw the intersection fronting Kalaheo High School, talk about relief. I know that ill-feeling was likely due to the idea of trying to find our way back to the highway but I was up to spiritually go and see if anything spirits lurked that area. I was pleasantly surprised and glad that this Hawaiian man said he’ll accompany me. He signaled for couple of their warriors to come along with us, and we soon went. At Kawainui Marsh, we stood there, roadside, and saw movement in the marsh. Being it was a spiritual experience, for a while I couldn’t figure out what could be lurking around in the marsh so I just stood there watching. Then I saw it was two big lizards. There were about four of them, maybe, but there were two of them that seemed to be a close ‘a pair’ somehow, going in and out of the marsh, staying under for a while then coming back up. These lizards were not like, say, a ridiculously big lizard you might see in the movies but more like “overgrown” lizards that I would say is about a foot long and green. They weren’t like regular geckos either, but thicker in the body, and the way they moved about was like a jerking sort of way, like go, stop, go, stop. Glancing at my companions, they were watching too but it didn’t seem like it was anything too out of the ordinary. I figured okay fine, overgrown lizards in the marsh, probably looking for small fish or something in the water to eat. Not my idea of a spiritual experience, so we headed toward Kapaa Quarry. I really wanted to see what was back there because I knew there was something interesting. When we started nearing the place, by instinct I kept our distance, and instead, projected a look to see. At the farthest point in and toward the left, I saw several natives, but they did not look Hawaiian to me. These natives, I could feel, was very, very… very ancient. They had these long tribal masks with what looked like ‘hay’ sticking out from the sides of the mask, and these were short people, like in the 4-foot range - not midgets now - but short people that were all distinctly under 5-feet. They were covered in, what looked like whitish-gray powder, and the way they carried themselves, looked really primitive, as if they don’t even have a language they speak. Glad I followed my instinct because having seen them, I really wouldn’t want them to see any of us. Soon after, we went back. Like I said, they didn’t look Hawaiian to me. It also felt that they were here before the Hawaiians. Go figure. Well that was it for that night and hoped to go back again when I had the time but so far I haven’t gone back, not yet anyway. Sometimes going on a spiritual journey out there may not seem like much happened or that I haven’t been out long, but what seems like a half hour visit, oftentimes turns out to be twice as long or more. And I don’t always have the time, the peace, or the right mood to ‘go out’ so oftentimes my prime time to do so is usually at night - at bedtime. Then when the visit is over, I just let myself fall asleep, or I end up falling asleep in the process. Anyway, at bedtime that was either that next night or the following after going Ulupo heiau side, soon after I got into bed, I “saw” a Polynesian looking lady with kinda straight, ‘ehu’ colored hair, and somehow she looked weird. She was kinda smiling, and her eyes, I couldn’t figure out why her eyes looked so glassy and murky, like she was really stoned or something. Then, ugh, I came to realize that she was all ‘hot up’ because I started smelling sex very strongly. I honestly don’t think it was a lesbian thing - totally something I am not into - so when I picked up on that smell, I just cut the communication like turning off a light switch. (Small kine ‘downside’ sometimes.) Few nights later on one of our conference calls between Wayne, Phil, and me, I told them about that ‘experience’, and long story short, learned that the lady I saw was a “mo’o wahine” (female water lizard spirit) who mates with men then kills em, and that mo’o’s are also shape shifters, (able to appear as a person and something else or vise versa). I admit, I never really believed in some of the Hawaiian folklores like the mo’o – which I actually knew very little about – but apparently, the mo’o’s do exist, spiritually, of course. Well, this is just one incident with the mo’o that prompted from my visit to the Kawainui Marsh. (There’s more with the mo’o wahine, but it’s better I impart these experiences to you in the order that I experienced them.)The next experience was one afternoon about two-three days later I saw the kupuna from Ulupo Heiau and a beautiful Hawaiian woman out on my lanai – they came for a visit - so I went outside and had such a warm visit with them. I also had John’s granddad from Hilo there with me and we all had an awesome time. I don’t know who that lady was but there was something about her – her energies – that made her feel really beautiful like she was… I dunno, like a… I can’t even come up with the words to describe her! And she was so nice too. From all the places I went - on any side - and the kinds of spirits I’ve seen (some you wouldn’t believe) there were few that gave off energies like this spirit that was somehow ‘different’. And I couldn’t figure just why she felt so ‘different’ because it almost felt as if she was “a goddess” or something. Okay so after a while they went back, and as always, it felt great to make connections and good friends with spirits, especially these Hawaiian spirits. It was either the next day or so, I was on my way to the Windward side and cut through H-3 to pay a small visit to the spirits there that I haven’t seen for years, then headed toward the Windward side from there. (I’ll tell you guys about H-3 later on.) Passing the koolaus, I stopped because on the side of the mountains overlooking the sea was this spirit’s face - a Hawaiian man’s face - that, in size, covered about a third of the front face of the mountain that seemed to be on the right not all that far from the ‘stairway to heaven’ but not very sure because once in a while my spiritual ‘compass’ might be a little bit off. He couldn’t see me so I just watched him in amazement, wondering what and who he was because he really looked like a god that’s sometimes illustrated in Hawaii picture books of legends and stories. Experiencing many Hawaiian spirits during the long years behind me, never have I seen anything like this. You guys seen Hawaiian pictures where they’d show a big god or goddess’s face, like Pele’s over the volcano right? It was like that but this one was REAL, a real Hawaiian face, an “akua” (god) that was truly alive, and I seen em clearly too. And he really - and I mean ‘reeeeally’ - handsome. After a few hours (kidding)… after a “little while”, I moved on to Kailua. Then, on another conference call with Wayne and Phil, they informed me of some Hawaiian “pig god” but no way was this guy a pig god, not because of how he looked but I just knew. They did say something about some spirit and mo’o’s, so one evening after a visit to Ulupo, I swung by Kawainui Marsh on my way back and saw some mo’o’s in the marsh, so passing that mountainside, I seen that handsome akua guy again, and I can’t remember what we talked briefly about but I told him to come follow me because I wanted to show him something, and as soon as we got to Kawainui Marsh, it’s like he right away became ‘different’, staring at the mo’o’s in the water like a hunter. Next thing I knew, he leaped into the marsh as I stood there stunned and kinda horrified because the mo’o’s were trying to get away, and ugh, soon after he came out of the marsh with a mo’o in his mouth, looking a little like an animal, in a way, and the mo’o in his mouth was wiggling, trying to get free. Was gross. As stunned and horrified as I was though, I couldn’t help but laugh a little because of the way he looked… a handsome guy, suddenly moving the way an animal on the hunt moves, then coming out with that thing in his mouth. He looked really funny. In a weird way, though he was their predator, it didn’t feel like the mo’o’s was in danger. Almost as if he’ll capture one and maybe eat/kill em but they’ll come back alive and it’ll eventually happen again at one time or another. Couldn’t make sense of that either, just figured it’s just their spiritual way. Well you’ll never guess what happened next.I remember it was a Sunday morning and before getting out of bed, I thought I’d head back to Kawainui Marsh to make sure everything was alright there. Passing the same area of the koolaus, I just took a glance as I passed by, and guess what?? Remember that beautiful lady that came with the kupuna from Ulupo? She, was with that handsome guy and they were ‘doing it’ in the mountains where he lives. That’s not a big deal but the highlight was that, by him having ate one of the mo’o’s, it gave both him AND her some kind of energies that “kept” both of them “young” and “beautiful”. It was some magical ritual or something that they do every now and then. That part I’m sure. I could see it. And apparently I was right. It is their way, like some ritual-like cycle they all go through because the same mo’o’s were back in the marsh playing in the water, doing what they do, as if nothing happened. I’ll admit something. There have been some Hawaiian legends and stories of such spirits like the mo’o that I never really believed - pretty much not at all - until I experienced them. I’ve also seen ‘aumakuas’ that are inside white owls up at the Pali and inside sharks swimming around. Born and raised in Hawaii, being a non-Hawaiian but a half Japanese and half Filipino gal, had nothing to do with “not believing” either. It’s all about opening your eyes - just a little bit - just enough to get a peek of what may really be out there in the world that the majority of us do not readily see. And in reality, know very little about.

Ulupo Heiau, Kawainui Marsh, and Kapaa Quarry

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