Dispatches from Volcano: Friday, April 30, 2021. Remembering

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remembering then

At 2 in the afternoon of April 30, 2018, the floor of Puʻuʻōʻō began collapsing. It was a rainy foggycloudy day, and webcams on the rim of the crater couldnʻt really see. But for monitoring instruments, coupled with geologists observations of a rising crater floor the preceding days, those moments may have gone unnoticed.

Starting at about 2:00 p.m. on Monday, April 30, marked increased seismicity and ground deformation indicated that the expected change at Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō was underway. Visibility was nearly obscured due to poor weather conditions, but a brief clearing at 2:12 allowed HVO's webcam to capture this image of the crater, showing that part of the crater floor within Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō on Kīlauea Volcano's East Rift Zone had collapsed. The crater floor continued to collapse for several hours therafter; smaller drops in the crater floor have likely continued through today (May 1).

And so began the most recent hulihia in the history of Kīlauea.

huli.hia

Pas/imp. of huli 1, 2; overturned; a complete change, overthrow; turned upside down. Chants about Pele with verses beginning with the word “hulihia” are referred to as hulihia. See prayer, kualakai 2. Hulihia ka mauna, wela i ke ahi (PH 204, 225), mountain overturned, hot with fire. Hulihia Kī-lau-ea, pō i ka uahi (PH 197), Kī-lau-ea [Volcano] is overturned, darkened by smoke. Kaua hulihia, revolutionary war. (PNP fulisia.)

Hulihia are catastrophic overturnings. They happen infrequently during recent history, but they reoccur. And without our ability to remember, to consciously recall, itʻs easy to go on with our daily, quotidian, lives as if nothing happened. Sound familiar? Go back and re-read some of my posts. Eruptions on the Lower East Rift Zone of Kīlauea have had great impacts as long as pele has flowed. Maybe wasnʻt too bad before, when not too many people lived there, and infrastructure was minimal. When Pelehonuamea visited, folks moved, recognizing that the ʻāina, the land, was Hers. Today? Not so much.

We need our roads back. Gotta reopen the boat ramp. I gotta rebuild my house. And an acquiescent, compliant government, not wanting to ruffle feathers or make tough decisions, complies.

Or the hulihia that is the CoViD pandemic. Hawaiʻi Nei empty of tourists. Devastating, catastrophic economic impacts. Weʻll change. We had too many anyway. Weʻll re-envision, recalibrate, reassess. For the good of the ʻāina and for the keiki. And for a more sustainable and resilient economy. And what? What change?

So I remember and listen to music. Various words in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi are used for the English "remember" or "recall". GoLook.

In Andrews 1865 Dictionary:

HOO-MA-NAO

v. See MANAO, to think. To turn the mind upon; to call to mind; to cause to consider; to remember that which is past.

Or in Pukui and Elbert:

remember

Hoʻomanaʻo, hoʻomaopopo, hāʻupu, ʻhaliʻa, hāliʻaliʻa, haili, hoʻonoʻonoʻo, paʻanaʻau. See recall. Fondly remember, haliʻa aloha. Remember imperfectly, paʻa pāhemohemo.

And I was triggered by "hāʻupu", and started almost mindlessly humming and la-la-ing...

Again, in Andrews:

HA-U-PU

v. To excite; to stir up, as the affections or passions.

2. To suffer with anxiety; to be much excited or moved; ua haupu honua ae la ka makaula, the prophet was much excited. Laieik. 157.

3. To rise up suddenly in the mind, as a thought.

4. To stir up one to recollection; alaila, e haupu ia lakou me ka homanao.

His "old-fashioned" descriptions always seem to strike a chord...

And I latched on to "ʻupu aʻe ka manaʻo....", as in the Pukui and Elbert dictionary:

ʻupu

nvt. Recurring thought, desire, attachment, hope, expectation; to desire, long for, covet, keep thinking of with anticipation. Cf. hāʻupuʻupu, nahele. E ʻupu aʻe ka manaʻo e ʻike i ka nani (song), thinking and longing to see the beauty. ʻAʻole nō i ʻupu iho, komo mai ana ka mōʻī wahine, in a moment, the queen entered [lit., not indeed a thought given]. Cf. ʻū 2. (PPN kupu.)

And went back to the mele "Aliʻipoe". Another repeated post, but why not?

Aliʻipoe by The K Sisters

The K Sisters are Mabel Kekino, Vivian Kahale, Kathy Kane (Kawelo), and Dorothy Kalima.

Source: An old love song from Kauaʻi - The seeds of the aliʻipoe are used in the laʻamia calabash for the rattle of the ʻulīʻulī. Translated by Alice Nāmakelua. Hawaiian Text edited by Puakea Nogelmeier

And, Robert, what does this have to do with the third anniversary of the Hulihia of 2018? Well...weʻre remembering...and my ADD enjoys flitting topic to seemingly unrelated topic, though of course in my mind theyʻre ALL related.

And so we remember. During my walk on April 27, 2018, at 1041a. On Crater Rim Drive, as far as we were allowed to go. Foreground lava is September 1982, and note the bloom on ʻōhiʻa. Just like those I posted yesterday. The Halemaʻumaʻu Parking Lot is was at the end of the straightaway.

And just before Puʻuʻōʻō was in the throes, from an HVO tower webcam. The ʻ82 flow at the top of the frame. Location of above photo obscured by fume.

I was at HVO on May 2, 2018 and took this at 1201p. Light Kona winds, voggy, and then She disappeared from view in Kaluapele till December 20, 2020.

And then... The ʻ82 flow is on the bottom of the image below, captured on 1/2/20, as the loko wai, the water lake, in Halemaʻumaʻu was growing.

And down at Keahialaka, Puna ma kai, on the Lower East Rift Zone of Kīlauea, the next two are views from opposite directions, but you can match the houses...

On May 6, 2018, by HVO, just after Fissure 8 (Lua ʻEwalu) was born.

And below, another from HVO on March 4, 2021. Lua ʻEwalu. Itʻs my property and Iʻll do what I please...Iʻll bulldoze a road, and flatten a small area for...