Pu'uhonua O Laie A Gathering Place

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Informative Speech for Comm 175 about the Pu'uhonua O Laie

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  1. when people think of Hawaii, they think of hula girls,
  2. aloha shirts and flower lace.
  3. But before hawaii became a vacation destination, Hawaii was a
  4. sacred place for the Hawaiian people.
  5. Hawaiians believe that they came from spiritual gods who loved
  6. them so much that they sent down ali royal teeth
  7. directly from the gods to guide them throughout their lives.
  8. They used a system called koppu to govern them hop,
  9. who was a very strict system.
  10. Some examples of koppu were the rules that men and
  11. women could not eat together.
  12. In fact, they couldn't even cook their food in the
  13. same kitchen.
  14. Women were restricted to the foods that they could eat.
  15. They weren't allowed to eat pork, certain fishes and even
  16. certain vegetables When it came to the early, they were
  17. so powerful and reviewed that really had special doors entryways
  18. that only they could come through.
  19. Not even their wives were allowed to come into these
  20. doors when the led were out in the community.
  21. If their shadow cast it upon you, that was Kaku.
  22. If they really had just stepped into a spot that
  23. you stepped into, you taking away their Montana their power,
  24. That was koppu Cap pu also dictated when you could
  25. fish when you could hunt and even when you could
  26. farm, it also dictated what you could fish hunt or
  27. farm. If you broke koppu, it was the punishment was
  28. always death.
  29. Lucky for the Hawaiians, they had something that could circumvent
  30. this on every island was a poo hana or a
  31. city of refuge.
  32. If the cop who breaker could get to the entrance
  33. of the city of refuge before the warriors who were
  34. sent to kill them, reach them.
  35. They receive inside the city of refuge where kuna priest
  36. who would help cleanse and make whole the sinners or
  37. the breakers of koppu.
  38. Once that was done, you were welcomed back into society
  39. as if sen our law was never broken.
  40. These people who knew were not just for lawbreakers during
  41. time of destitute or need anybody could come in and
  42. receive help.
  43. During times of war, many women, Children and even elderly
  44. came to the city of Refuge to find safety and
  45. shelter inside the city of refuge.
  46. In the uppermost corner was a hay out or a
  47. temple. These hails were rectangular in shape, three stories high,
  48. built all of lava rock and as you moved up
  49. each story, it was more and more sacred.
  50. Back in the 18 hundreds, Christianity came to the Hawaiian
  51. islands along with that.
  52. By mid 1800 the LDS Church had sent the mormon
  53. missionaries. These missionaries began converting many members to the church
  54. and desired a place for their saints to gather.
  55. When they came to the city of light year.
  56. They knew just like bring um young that this was
  57. the place we purchased the land and immediately began building
  58. a temple rectangular in shape, three stories high.
  59. Built at a lava rock.
  60. This temple was finished in 1919 and within a few
  61. months ST from around the Pacific Rim Tonga Fiji Samoa,
  62. New Zealand all started coming to receive their own endowments.
  63. The Saints from New Zealand brought over 100 generations worth
  64. of names to bring through the temple as these if
  65. you go and visit the temple today right behind the
  66. temple still are the remnants of that very first day
  67. y'all the LDS church realized that as all these saints
  68. were coming to the city of Latakia and gathering, they
  69. needed a place for education.
  70. They built the church College of Hawaii, which today is
  71. known as Brigham Young University Hawaii campus and along with
  72. that built the Polynesian culture center as a place for
  73. their students to afford their education.
  74. The Polynesian culture center was built with the purpose in
  75. mind to teach people about the nations of Polynesia but
  76. also to share the spirit of the gospel of jesus
  77. christ. Today, the Polynesian culture center is the number one
  78. tourist attraction in the entire state of Hawaii.
  79. Nearly a million visitors come through these walls every single
  80. year when started out as a police, for safety, for
  81. security, for cleansing for the Hawaiian people has become a
  82. place where members of the church, not just from the
  83. pacific room but all over the world can come and
  84. gather. It has truly become a place for the saints
  85. of God.