Bastrod

@bastrod.bsky.social

⚓️ Astrid - she/her - 22 - 🇸🇪 - 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 🐚 Digital artist

awwe, thank you for this!! I want to find more indigenous artists!! Alohaa, I'm Gen, I'm ‘ōiwi, māhū, demi and pan!! I love nature so muchh~ plants, mammals, reptiles, fish, dinos, bugs, bacteria... all of them... Here's an illustration I did of a Hawai'i mo‘olelo! bsky.app/profile/papa...

𝔾𝔼ℕ⭑。𖦹°‧@papayaya.online · last yr.

the mo'olelo of the naupaka flower - the plant grows by the seashore and on the high mountains in Hawai'i. the unique thing about it is that it looks like the flower is missing half of it's petals

Image: Naupaka and Kaui tearfully embracing

Naupaka and Kaui part 1:
Naupaka walked along the shoreline of a beautiful beach in ancient Hawai'i. At the far end, the flash of the sun off the scales of a fish caught her eye - Kaui the fisherman was pulling in the morning's catch. Kaui, in turn, caught the sight of Naupaka as well, a single white flower in her ear and her long dark hair filled with warm sunlight. As their eyes met on this lonely beach, their hearts filled with love for each other and they ran to one another.

But the comfors of their embrace faded as they realized - Kaui was a commoner and Naupaka high-born; their love was made forbidden long before either of them had even come into the world. Yet Naupaka had a strong will and decided to confront the Kupuna and ask for their permission to marry.

Princess Naupaka pleaded with the Kupuna, and the Kupuna listened patiently, but in the end their love was kapu and the Kupuna could not grant Naupaka's wish. However, the wise elder told Naupaka to seek the council of the Kahuna in the mountains, and Naupaka dared to let hope seep into her heart.