Title
Mele Kalikimaka #1
Artist
James Temple
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Art
Description
The English phrase "Merry Christmas" as pronounced in Hawaiian. The missionaries reduced the Hawaiian language to written form, enabling the Hawaiian people to read and write in their own language. Many words for which there were no clear Hawaiian language equivalents were translated phonetically.
The words "Mele Kalikimaka" are a phonetic translation. When the missionaries and other Westerners first brought the custom of Christmas to the Hawaiian Islands, the Hawaiians had difficulty pronouncing Merry Christmas and turned it into words that rolled more easily off their tongues.
This image is of a Hawaiian quilt design that looks sort of like a snow flake.
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October 25th, 2015
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Marcia Colelli
Beautiful image and wonderful Christmas greeting. L
James Temple replied:
Aloha Marcia, hope you are well. Thanks for the comment! I hope you have a wonderful Christmas. James
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