🌿 The Sacred Beat of Hawaii – The Pahu Drum 🥁 More than just an instrument, the Pahu drum carries deep spiritual and cultural significance in Hawaiian traditions. 🌺 Carved from a single log, often breadfruit or coconut wood, and covered with sharkskin, its deep, resonant sound was once used in heiau (temples) to communicate with the gods. 🔱 Priests and chiefs played the Pahu in sacred ceremonies, believing its rhythmic beats connected them to their ancestors and the divine. 🌊 🎶 Today, the

8.9K views · 371 reactions | As kumu hula Kaleo Trinidad thumps his pahu drum, the men of Ka Leo o Laka i ka Hikina o ka La move with masculine grace to the beat. Their unified voices, powerful and strong, resonate through a school gym in Kaneohe, a look of fierceness and resolve on their faces as they rehearse for next month's 52nd Merrie Monarch Festival in Hilo. | The Daily Hawaii | Facebook

From today's performance: Keiki Kane Ho`okani Pahu (Little drummer boy) Haumana: you look like cute strawberries 🍓 hehe 😘 Christmas was introduced around the 1800 when the missionaries arrived in Hawaii. Later around 1900 Christmas songs were translated by Mary Puku'i, a scholar that was fluent in Hawaiian language and well known in Hawaiian history for her extensive work on translations from Hawaiian language to English. Because of the drumming theme, and pahu beat, I opted for the use of kal