Magical power used by a Hawaiian Kahuna with help from subconscious
spirits
The Huna
Death Prayer and How It Can Be Used to Heal
by Caitlin
MacKenna
Kahuna was the
Hawaiian title for a priest, expert, teacher, and/or adviser. Among
the legendary magical powers of the kahuna nui was the "Huna death
prayer." Usually, it's mentioned in passing while saying that the
secret was lost. Not true. This is how the Huna death prayer was
done:
The Kahunas
believed that man had two spirits, the lower or subconscious one
being illogical and subject of the influence of hypnotic suggestion.
To become able to use the death prayer, a Kahuna had to inherit from
another Kahuna one or more (usually about three) unihipili or
subconscious spirits though he could, if sufficiently psychic,
locate subconscious spirits himself and use hypnotic suggestion to
capture and enslave them. (How he might have done that will be
discussed in a future post.)
When a person
was to be prayed to death, the kahuna called to him his enslaved
spirits and gave them hypnotic orders to absorb mana (vital force)
from food and drink, which were placed on a mat on the ground and
surrounded with ceremonial objects such as small white stones and
pieces of wood. The Kahuna transferred his own mana into the food,
drink, and the ceremonial objects, which were called papa or
"forbidden."
The spirits
were then given precise instructions as to what they were to do with
thmana. They were to catch the scent from a bit of hair or soiled
garment belonging to the intended victim and follow it the way a dog
follows a track. Upon reaching the victim, they were to await their
chance to enter his or her body, which they were able to do because
of the power to use as a paralyzing shock the surcharge of vital
force given them by their master.
The order
which the spirits were trained to obey was recorded in one case. It
was:
"O Lono,
Listen to my voice.
This is the plan:
Rush upon __________ and enter;
Enter and curl up;
Curl up and straighten out."
The "curl up"
and "straighten out" had other meanings than we give the words in
English. The process was one of entering the body of the intended
victim or attaching themselves to it. That done, the vital force of
the victim was absorbed by the intruding spirits and stored in their
spirit bodies. As the vital force of the victim was withdrawn from
the feet a numbness came to them, which rose gradually over a period
of three days to knees, hips, and, finally, to the solar plexus or
heart, at which time the victim died.
When the death
had been accomplished, the spirits left the body, taking with them
their charges of vital force and returned to their master. If the
victim had been protected by another Kahuna and the spirits were
sent back by him to their owner with hypnotic orders to attack their
master, they might make such an attack with fatal results. In order
to avoid such a danger, a magic ritual of cleansing was usually
performed by the Kahuna sending out the spirits (kala), or, as was
more often the case, the person who had hired the Kahuna to send the
death prayer to another, and who had vouched for the fact that the
intended victim deserved such drastic punishment, would be named as
the one responsible, to be attacked should another Kahuna send the
spirits back before their task was accomplished.
In the event
of a return from a successful mission, the Kahuna ordered his spirit
slaves to play until they used up the vital force they had taken in
the process of the guilty one. Their play usually took the form of
what we would call poltergeist activities. They would move or throw
objects, make loud noises and generally create bedlam.
The killing of
a person by magic was thought by the Kahunas to depend upon whether
or not the victim had a deep sense of guilt which was caused by the
wrongs done others. Such a guilt complex made the attack of the
unihipili or subconscious spirits successful. Without this sense of
guilt, the subconscious of the victim would successfully ward off
the attacking spirits.
You can see
from this that only a person who had done something wrong, or
thought he had, could be affected by the Huna death prayer, so
there's little danger that innocent people could be murdered by
Kahuna wannabes. However, a perceptive reader might also be thinking
that this process could also be done in reverse. Instead of taking
mana from the victim and killing him, mana could be given to the
patient to heal him. Magic is no more black or white than is
electricity. It's all in how you use it.
About the
author: Caitlin MacKenna writes on various subjects, including the
paranormal. Her website
The Paranormal Dimension explores the dimension that lies beyond
the material world where we live our everyday lives.
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