The Rulers of The Heavens

Spirits of Darkness primeval,Spirits of Light,To Kane, the eternal,To Kanaloa, the eternal,To Hoomeha, the eternal,To all my ancestors from eternity,To Ku-huluhulumanu, the eternal,That you may banish the darkness,that we may enter the light.To me, give divine power,Give intelligence,Give great success.Climb to the wooded mountains,to the mountain ridges,Gather all the birds,Bring them to my gumto beContinue reading “The Rulers of The Heavens”

Gone To The Sandwich Islands part 1

The 1890 edition of the two-volume Macy family genealogy devoted but a single line to my great- great grandfather: Benjamin Baxter Macy, born Nantucket 1842: gone to the Sandwich islands. Gone, at age 19, on an eighteen thousand mile sea voyage, first to Rio, around Cape Horn to Valparaiso, then northwest into the Pacific, neverContinue reading “Gone To The Sandwich Islands part 1”