There once was a time when my cousin had an encounter with what he described as a Menehune. About a decade or so back while he and his family were living on Kauai, he and his best friend had an encounter with a black cat just on the outskirts of my aunt and uncle’s garden. My cousin didn’t consider anything unusual about the black cat, since there were many different animals that would roam around there from time to time. Just as they were about head back towards the house, he and his best friend noticed that the cat shape-changed into a small male roughly 3 feet or so tall. He resembled much of a Menehune having cooper brown to dark skin tone and only a traditional Hawaiian loincloth known as a malo. The Menehune looked at the two of them and began talking in a language unlike any they’ve…show more content… Their homeland long ago known as Manahune, is located in the Tahitians. There is a slight dialectical variation of Manahune to the Menehune. Since the Tahitian invasion (~1100 AD), the “first settlers of Hawaii,” popularly known as the Menehune, were oppressed. The Manahune in Robert W. Willamson’s book, The Social and Political Systems of Central Polynesia, were known as, “All who were destitute of any land, and ignorant of the rude arts of carpentering, building, etc….” While this Menehune definition is hazy of whether it deems true or not, according to the Maori or Rarotonga, Manaune or Manahune is referred as a ‘scab’ or ‘mark’ on the body. This reference indicates their hierarchical system being the lowest class there is. The dawn of Manaune or Manahune in the Polynesian Society’s book, The Journal of the Polynesian Society, “…is due to the people who bore it being marked with cicatrices (manahune).” While fingers have point to Polynesians preoccupying the name via their Maori and Rarotonga ancestral account Kalani-Menehune, the Manune or Manahune were an alien race than being their
