12-06-2012, 05:02 PM
I have seen this in different forms, with Hina in her home in the cave below the ledge of Rainbow falls, & her son Maui & his dealings with the dragon K(T)una, embattled, & in the battle, lava splashing into the water above the falls forming the boiling pots...
I have not seen a legend about stopping the flow of the river (granted there may be...but I have not seen it Link to the Maui & Wailuku legend from Sacred Text:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/maui/maui16.htm
Added to reduce brevity ;~)
When looking at both the geologic features & the mele, there are some important features to note: the rock is all basalt, there are some slight & some major compositional variations...and thanks to research like the XRF studies going by Dr. Lundblad, we are starting to learn more about the age and creation place of the rocks we see, esp. in a riparian zone like the Wailuku, where rocks of different ages and lava eruptions can be carried & placed together.
As with mele, where the polynesian lifeblood lives & flows in braided paths like the telling of a dragon/lizard on an island with no reptiles, with a name that is grounded more in the Maori tongue, but is spoken of in the land of Hawai`i, carried over the waves by people that have seen rocks in other lands, perhaps their tales are of gods embattled with the fire breath of eons prior & see similar patterns, or maybe they have heard of the dragon & see the hot lava splashing in the pools... The myths & the rocks are intertwined...and the scientists are now looking to both, to tease out the threads that make the story of this place.
I have not seen a legend about stopping the flow of the river (granted there may be...but I have not seen it Link to the Maui & Wailuku legend from Sacred Text:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/maui/maui16.htm
Added to reduce brevity ;~)
When looking at both the geologic features & the mele, there are some important features to note: the rock is all basalt, there are some slight & some major compositional variations...and thanks to research like the XRF studies going by Dr. Lundblad, we are starting to learn more about the age and creation place of the rocks we see, esp. in a riparian zone like the Wailuku, where rocks of different ages and lava eruptions can be carried & placed together.
As with mele, where the polynesian lifeblood lives & flows in braided paths like the telling of a dragon/lizard on an island with no reptiles, with a name that is grounded more in the Maori tongue, but is spoken of in the land of Hawai`i, carried over the waves by people that have seen rocks in other lands, perhaps their tales are of gods embattled with the fire breath of eons prior & see similar patterns, or maybe they have heard of the dragon & see the hot lava splashing in the pools... The myths & the rocks are intertwined...and the scientists are now looking to both, to tease out the threads that make the story of this place.