Post #7079 by misstyki on Thu, Aug 29, 2002 2:13 AM

I've heard of stories about Pele too.
One of my ancestor was known for her worship of the Goddess. Before She left Tahiti or Kahiki to the Hawaiian Islands. She would sacrifice white feathered chicken and do prayers.
I have a profound respect for my ancestors beliefs and sometimes think they weren't only stories.

Here's another spooky tale about tikis.
One of our friend a Popa'a, (Haoli or pakeha), thatis to say a white guy. Who was very skeptical about anything supernatural, decided one day to build a house at the foot of a mountain in Moorea. He chose to use the rocks that were on his land to make concrete. One day as the workers were grinding the these rocks to have smaller pieces, there was a big boom and the machine just stopped, there was smoke coming out of it.
Our friend went out to see what was going on and guess what?
They found a small tiki stuck in it. The machine was totalled but the statue was ok!
From that day on our friend thought differently of the old stories.

(sorry for errors... english is not my mother tongue!)