Kapu edition by Joe Bice Literature Fiction eBooks
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Imagine paradise, the Garden of Eden, Shangri-La.
Smell the fragrance of tropical plumeria and butterfly ginger. Visualize halos of mysterious clouds hugging tree-enriched mountains; radiant rainbows arching rivers and vast red canyons.
Utopia is the garden island of Kauai, the northern most inhabited Hawaiian island, in the year of our Lord, 1772. Simple people fearful of the gods live a mostly peaceful existence of raising families and hunting for food while adhering to many kapu's (forbidden sanctified laws) punishable by death if defied. Human sacrifices to the supreme god Kane are commonplace.
Prince Ka’le, thirteen year-old son of Ali’i Nui Kaikala, chief of the village of Kamokila, saunters along a lava-rock reef near the shore of Anahola Bay. An odd piece of wood with tapa attached pokes from a blowhole, which leads him to remains on the ocean floor of a shipwrecked Spanish Galleon.
Ka’le ultimately discovers a fortune in gold ingots, enough temptation to create havoc on this quiet island paradise. He tells only his guardian and friend, Noela, of his find. Certainly not his royal brother, Kimo.
Ka’le and Kimo, the unidentical thirteen-year-old twin sons of Ali'i Nui Kaikala and Chiefess Ema, are as disparate as the distance between mountaintop and seashore. Ka’le is amiable and generous; committed to the village and his subjects as heir apparent. Kimo is devious, caustic, aspiring by any means to become chief of Kamokila, despite his brother's preordained role of leadership having been first born.
Kapu edition by Joe Bice Literature Fiction eBooks
All that said, this is a good read and a pretty well written novel -- I just don't think it's a completely accurate depiction of ancient Hawai'i. The characters are well drawn and one finds oneself turning expectantly from chapter to chapter to see where the events of the novel will lead.The problems with this book are numerous, not the least of which is the shabby proof reading. While only an amateur scholar of Hawai'i's history and oral traditions, one still found numerous inaccuracies: Women had far more autonomy than depicted here, nor were women used as ritual sacrifices; human sacrifices were only made to Ku, and the blood was never spilt on the altar -- the ancient Hawaiians being fastidiously clean; the 'circumcision" was not a complete one, but simply cutting the foreskin -- probably to prevent sand being trapped there when swimming in the ocean; the children of the narrtor and his first cousin would have been of such a high kapu (higher than either parent) that they would be prevented from running around without constant guardians; and discussions of men's ule would never have been considered improper -- if anything it was to be expected in a culture that sang songs praising a chief's genetalia.
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Kapu edition by Joe Bice Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
All that said, this is a good read and a pretty well written novel -- I just don't think it's a completely accurate depiction of ancient Hawai'i. The characters are well drawn and one finds oneself turning expectantly from chapter to chapter to see where the events of the novel will lead.
The problems with this book are numerous, not the least of which is the shabby proof reading. While only an amateur scholar of Hawai'i's history and oral traditions, one still found numerous inaccuracies Women had far more autonomy than depicted here, nor were women used as ritual sacrifices; human sacrifices were only made to Ku, and the blood was never spilt on the altar -- the ancient Hawaiians being fastidiously clean; the 'circumcision" was not a complete one, but simply cutting the foreskin -- probably to prevent sand being trapped there when swimming in the ocean; the children of the narrtor and his first cousin would have been of such a high kapu (higher than either parent) that they would be prevented from running around without constant guardians; and discussions of men's ule would never have been considered improper -- if anything it was to be expected in a culture that sang songs praising a chief's genetalia.
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