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The Kahunas The Black and White Magicians of Hawaii 1969 Sacred Knowledge
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The Kahunas: The Black – and White – Magicians of HawaiiSibley S Morrill et. al.
Boston: Braden Press, 1969
Decorated burnt orange glued wrapped, Spine title.
8vo; 8.5 inches tall; 112 pages with several b/w drawings.
Bindings are tight and square.
Text clean, light even toning.
Moderate shelf handling wear.
Contents:
The revival of the black arts; A silly native belief-so the nazi said by Shadrach Minor;
And how did the kahuna kill the child? by Sibley S. Morrill;
The kahuna board of health and the annexation of Hawaii by Charles Gage;
Were the kahunas semites? by James de Witt;
Fire walking-a kahuna mystery by Dean Lipton;
Some Hawaiian beliefs regarding spirits by J.S. Emerson;
Kahunas and at he Hawaiian religion by W.D. Alexander;
The ceremony of the mysteries by Francis J. Greene
The word Kahuna is derived from Kahu, which means caretaker. Also, huna means secret; so together, a Kahuna was the keeper or caretaker of secret or sacred knowledge. In other words, a Kahuna was a professional expert of a given field of knowledge and practice. They were much like the guild masters of Medieval Europe, or indeed the Freemasons, in that their expertise was kept away from the prying eyes of the general public, and thus was kept secret.
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