Before they Came

One could only imagine how life on these pristine islands flourished 1500 years in the past. Subsisting in a land bequest with beauty found nowhere else on earth and teaming with victuals from both land and sea. Those first occupants might have existed here as much as 700 years before the next voyagers from the southern hemisphere appeared. As many as 30 to 40 continuous generations inhabited this archipelago hidden to the rest of the world. Moreover, for almost all (especially the latter) of these generations, this might have been the center of the universe, for they knew of no other existence. Only the presence of their own people, of their Gods, of the towering peaks that climbed endlessly to the clouds, found nowhere else in the vast Pacific ocean. Combining the sea, that encircled them from every direction and the “mana” (the land) that provided their permanent existence, they resided with an abundance of bounty. Mother earth could not have placed these “Jewels of the Pacific”, as they were coined some 1600 years later by Charles Lindbergh, with more isolation. At between 18’52” and 22’15” north latitude, and roughly at 154 to 160 degrees west longitude, they are set in the middle of the central pacific. Ultimately, with much irony, this strategic location, halfway between the orient and the western coasts of both north and south America, would prove to be one of the biggest impacts that would dictate the history and monumental social evolvment in the islands of Hawai’i. Yet for those centuries between 300 AD and 1000 AD a life of uninterrupted bliss existed for a brown skinned race, in a land that did not exist. It is believed that those that arrived first, did so from the Marquesas, and were thought to have carried a rather docile demeanor to