MORE ABOUT HAWAIIANS
In my book, The Arks of
Tubal-Cain, I compared Hawaii, perhaps one location of the land of Nod, to
which Cain wandered. The reason for that was Eve’s name; “Adam called his
wife's (Ishah in Hebrew) name ‘Eve’ because she was the mother of all
living” (Gen 3:20).
Therein exists equality; she was called
“Eve” because she was the mother of all living. Hence Eve is equivalent to “mother”,
and hers the land of the living. Cain’s seed might be called the “Motherland”.
In Hebrew, Eve is spelled חַוָּה (right to left chet-vav-hey)
which is transliterated “Haua” in the Hebrew. The first letter (חַ), I mistook for the letter hey (ה), and while realizing that the “u” has the
waw sound, I thought That spells Hawaw’a which it does not. Strong’s
Dictionary misled me as well sounding Haua khav-vaw'. However, the
“k” is not sounded; it is merely a guttural “h” sound like a hard “h” compared
to the letter hey as a soft, airy “h” sound.
By getting it wrong, I nearly got it right; Hav-VAW with the hey
silent therein.
How would natives pronounce Hawaii?
Hawaiʻi is
generally huh-VAH-ee (or ha-vai-ʻi), with a
soft 'v' sound for the 'w' and a distinct pause (glottal stop) represented by
the ʻokina (ʻ). While many locals use the 'w' sound, using a
soft 'v' is considered authentic to the native language. (YouTube)
Now compare Haua (Eve) to Hawai’i. Note that the pause of the
ʻokina replaces the silent hey in חַוָּה (Haua) and that the “u” has the sound of the VAH
in huh-VAH-ee. Hence, it is hav-vaw for one and hav-Vah
for the other with an extra ee sound.
In Hebrew, Hawai’i is pronounced Ha-VAH-ee, very much like Hawaiians pronounce
it. In early times, generally the WAW sound for the letter vav was used
rather than the VAH sound. If that is the case, then Eve’s name would be pronounced
in ancient times as Haw-WAW-uh (the uh replacing the letter hey.
Although not exact, the reader must admit that there are just too many
similarities for them not to be common. With that, I submit that the island of
Hawaii may have been named for Eve and like Eve it is the motherland.
That means that I may have stumbled upon something by accident; The island
of Hawaii has something to do with Eve. Indeed, Hawaii is a “paradise” like Eden,
so it made sense that the seed of Cain had found their own version of Paradise.
The next thought that came to me is What is notable about Hawaii? The
hula dance, and as it turned out, hula means “wandering” in the same vein as the
land of Nod.
Next, I wondered about their god(s). Who did they worship? Several sea
creatures. I thought that perhaps friendly sea creatures guided them to a safe
mountain during the flood of Noah.
Mount Kea is their holy mountain. and it is much higher than any of the
mountains of Ararat. Mount Kea was created from a volcano, last active 4,500–6,000
years ago. Could it be that God provided a place because of His mercy and the “lighthouse”
to guide them there?
The full name is Mauna a Wakea in their language. Wakea means
“sky father” and represents space and the heavens. In Hebrew Wakea would
be the same as the Hebrew Shamayim (the heavens). Mauna a Wakea would
mean “mountain to the heavens”. Indeed, Mauna Kea is their most holy mountain.
Also, Raki'a (רָקִיעַ) refers to the
"Firmament" or the "expanse" created to separate the waters
from the heavens in Genesis. This closely mirrors Wakea's role as
the expansive space above the earth.
In some contexts, Wakea (or Awakea) means "noon" or
"light of day," symbolizing the vivifying influence of the Sun, or either
the Light of God.
Wakea would be the progenitor
of the Hawaiian people and the "Sky Father" — Father God. Could it be
that they worshipped the same father God as Judeo-Christianity, but the wrong
son? Who is their major God? Kane.
Representing the god of creation, procreation, and the Progenitor of chiefs
and commoners. As a giver of life, he is associated with sunlight, fresh water,
and the sky. He is revered as a creator who formed the earth and fashioned the
first man. (Beckwith 1940)
Cain was the first
mortal man — “Ish”— who like God existed within himself.
Now consider my
young granddaughter; I asked of her, “Who taught you to speak?
Her short reply
was, “I taught myself.” Compare that to Eve, “I created Ish-man, Cain”
(Gen 4:1). Like the mother, like the son; Cain may have been thinking, I
created myself!
Modern people
think the same way; God did not create me, I just happened.
As such, Kane
would parallel Jesus as the “Word” (John 1:1-14). Not Yeshua, but Kane,
would be the Creator as God. The biblical Cain would be “the sky father” rather
than either Adam or Yeshua. Hawaii would be the motherland of Eve.
The Serpent
warned, “God knows that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be
opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil” (Gen 3:5). If Kane/Cain
was the “father of all living,” compared to Eve as the “mother of all living”,
then Kane and Haua would be the Hawaiian version of the father
and mother, respectively.
If so, then would
expect incest to be part of the native religion. Was it? In ancient Hawaii,
there were documented instances of incestuous, cross-generational, and sibling
marriages within the Aliʻi — the noble and royal classes — which
included some cases of a mother and son or father and daughter marrying.
The
primary motivation for such marriages was to preserve the highest possible
bloodline (mana) and keep it pure, as royal incest was considered a way to
ensure the children had the highest possible status.
Aliʻi Pio (Highest
Class): The highest-ranking chiefs were often the product of full-sibling
unions. The practice was not considered a sin or social wrong within this
exclusive, elite group. (AI Overview)
Now consider even the bloodline of the Hawaiians — mana. Even mana
has Hebrew meaning; the mem-nun, the same as manna from heaven in the
Bible. The letter mem means either blood or water, or even both, as
Jesus described the prescription for salvation (1 John 5:6).
For the Hawaiians, their bloodline, true to the Bible, came both by water (the
flood) and the blood (their genetics) just as with Noah’s seed.
What came by the water? The letter nun, representing both fish and
semen. Could that be their mistaken doctrine of mana, crediting the
ocean bearing creatures for their salvation, and making them the various gods
in their pantheon?
What evolved in Hawaii would be a type of Judeo-Christianity as to be
expected, so when Christian missionaries came to the island, it was difficult
to alter their form of religion in favor of the religion of the white man;
albeit similar, theirs included both good and evil.
Although I was mistaken in my reasoning, I accidentally found my hypothesis
plausible. There is much evidence that the arks of Tubal-Cain made it far, far
eastward of Eden.
Genetic studies indicate that Polynesian ancestors likely originated from,
or passed through, East Asia, with significant mixing with Melanesian
populations later. Their genetics are said to be around 80% Japanese because of
migration from eastern Asia. They would have been from the land of Nod and from
the land of the rising sun (Japan).
“Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod,
on the east of Eden” (Gen 4:16). If Eden is the Holy Land, then Japan is
eastward of Eden, and Hawaiians are the seed of the Japanese. That also points
to water travel to escape the waters of the flood, and like their ancestors,
high mountains would be the safe space and the place to worship their sky god.
Now back to phonetics. The Hebrew letters chet and hey are
different but more common to the extent that some modern Hebrew words can
either be written as “ch” as in chet or “h” as in hey.
Both chet and hey share the same form: חַ
and ה, respectively. They are connected by the
letter vav (וָּ) which means “connected”.
Although spelled חַוָּה, the word Haua
(Eve) is pronounced Khav-vaw’. Haua therefor means “life-giver” as
the “mother of all living.”
In the original language of Hawaii, it contains a glottal stop as in Hawai’i,
making the pronunciation ha-VAI-ee. Remembering that the “u” in Haua is pronounced
as a double “v” sound, you may by now understand my misunderstanding in the
beginning.
The word “Hawaii” is often interpreted as a combination of ha (breath),
wai (lifeforce), and ‘i (supreme/God), translating to “the breath
of life” or “the breath of the supreme (deity).
In the same manner, the letter vav in Haua also represents
the binding life force of God. Can you now see the similarities?
Now compare Hawai’i to Haua (חַוָּה);
read from right to left: chet, vav, and hey.
The Hawaiian people had no written language when the English came in the early
1800s. English-speaking people created their language using the left to right
western convention. If they had developed their own language, like other Orientals,
it might have been from right to left, so for the purpose of this commentary,
ignore the difference in the flow of the letters.
So, let’s rewrite חַוָּה in western
directions: hey-waw-chet. Linguists believe that Polynesian Hawaiki
refers to Hawai’i. Hence the glottal stop might have once been the
letter “k”. The letter chet sounds like “ch” or the letter “k”. Now
compare phonetic ha-waw-kee to Polynesian, Hawaiki.
Not stopping there, consider the meaning of חַוָּה
— “the mother of all living.” Literally, chet-waw-hey means wall, connection,
and beheld (or breath), respectively.
Now work the magic of understanding Hebrew pictographs; in the manner of
paleontologists, you must use the imagination.
Chet means fence, barrier,
wall and similar things. After much thought, the idea of a “womb” occurred to me
as a protective barrier within women to keep their unborn child safe from the
world. Hence, Eve would have a womb by the time Adam classified her new kind.
The last letter hey is of a mortal man with arm’s raised, as if in praise
or breathing. The pictograph may not have been a glorious man like Adam but a
lower state of man raising arms to receive the glory of God. (True that is
imaginative, but original man would not have looked like a common man.)
It could be that the letter hey represented Cain with arms raised to
receive his mark (Gen 4:15). I have concluded that common men, coming short of
the glory of God (Rom 3:23) looked more like the beasts of the field, specifically
the “creeping thing” (Gen 1:26).
Coming short of the glory of God, the letter hey might have
represented a man/beast (Ish, Gen 4:1) in the womb of Ishah — the
woman/wife. Whatever the case, the letter hey means either to behold or
breathed into.
In the case of Eve, she was beguiled (Gen 3:13). Her “lord”, surely after
sin, Satan would have “breathed” life unto her newly acquired womb. To validate
that, we must turn to the Bible. It is there in several places; “Cain, who was
of the Wicked One” (1 John 3:12) and that he was a new kind of man, not “Adam”
but “Ish” of Ishah (Gen 4:1).
Because sin was genetic, then all the seed was of both Eve (the mother of
all living) and Cain (Ish) — the father of all living — and because of
Satan in him, all common men are of the wicked ones; “You are of your father
the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do” (John 8:44).
That situation compares well with the Hawaiian idea of Hawai’i as
the supreme mother God of Hawaii and her son, Kane the father of them
all.
Hawai’i, or Polynesian Hawaiki,
refers to the ancestral home or the place from which people migrated. If they migrated
from Ha-Waw-kee (Eve), then Hawai’i would be the mother land and Moana
Wakea the mountain of the mother — “the mother land” of Eve.
If this seems contrived, so be it. However, the thoughts just occurred to
me and the elements presented herein is evidence of my hypothesis; that Hawaiians
descended from mother Eve, and from father Cain.
Several names have been passed around as wives of Cain. The Bible speaks
only of one ‘Issa, or Ishah.
In Biblical Hebrew, issa (אִשָּׁה
- ishah) primarily means "woman" or "wife". It is
the feminine counterpart to ish (man/husband), appearing frequently in The
Old Testament to denote a female person, or a married woman.
Since Ish means man and Ishah woman/wife, then Isha could
have been the wife of Cain. Since Eve was woman/wife Isha, could it be
that Cain husbanded with his own mother? Many religions, including native
Hawaiians, did not condemn such things.
An aberration of Judaism is that Lot fathered the children of his daughters,
meaning well, but creating a new kind of people — the Moabites. Were his daughters
just repeating the sins of their genetic mother Eve, having incest with their own
father? Hence, the god of Moabites were their father/mother pairs, such as El
and Asherah of the Canaanites.
Like the Canaanite God, Chemosh and Ashtar were the one God pair of the
Moabites as some believe. Is it possible that Eve and Cain were paired Hawaiian
gods? It seems so; perhaps they brought a form of God to the islands but a
misinformed pair, or even a pantheon of creature gods.
The Ish man, Cain, was a god unto himself, not glorious but cunning
and arrogant like his father the Devil. True to the Serpent, in their
wanderings, the seed of Cain became the gods and that was especially true in
Hawaiian mythology where even the lower states of beasts became the gods as
they were more like Cain than Yahweh.
I am not the last word, but there is so much evidence that there were
indeed arks of Tubal-Cain.
My first glance of Hawaii from the airplane:
