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Hawaiian Airlines presents Maui the Trickster

Hawaiian Airlines has wrapped one of their new A330’s in a very colorful decal with Disney Moana and Maui livery. It should be no surprise that Hawaiian is partnering with Disney again. For those of us who have been around the airlines for a little while, we might remember when the Lilo and Stitch cartoon first came out in 2002, all the Hawaiian employees were given Lilo and Stitch swag to wear on the job.

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While I enjoy being entertained and flying on shiny and colorful new airplanes as much as anyone else, I would like to springboard a little from this announcement by Hawaiian Airlines and offer a little background on the demi-god Maui and Disney for my readers. Consider these bullet points to discuss with your children before seeing the movie.

I don’t have much of anything to say specifically about Hawaiian Airlines except this. It’s some great looking artwork on the airplane and the overhead bins look fantastic. I am sure the passengers will have a blast riding on them!

With that being said, consider this my “spoiler alert” — we’re about to go way out into left field here. Consider just clicking away from this post right here, right now — otherwise — if you so choose to continue reading — Grab a cup of your favorite beverage and sit with me for a while, enjoy my intellectual version of a theme park thrill ride!

Maui the Trickster

Before we begin, I would like to source reference my title of Maui as “The Trickster”. I am not making this up. This “Sacred Texts” description of MAUI describes “THE deeds of Maui, the well-known trickster hero of Polynesia. The God Checker website call Maui “a real pest of a god”…

So it should be safe to establish without offending anyone, that Maui is a deceiver who, through causing all sorts of commotion and carrying on is eventually killed by another goddess. Disney for the most part, “modifies” and “repackages” everything nowadays. The original stories are not pleasant bedtime fables to lullaby our babies peacefully asleep. These are scary, frightening, Polynesian versions of similar ancient mythologies, more like The Clash of the Titans or The Brothers Grimm than anything else.

Disney’s “real mythology”

imdbscreenshotFirst of all, Disney pulls many Polynesian myths together into this storyline, according to IMDB website the Moana cartoon storyline is about “demi-gods and spirits taken from “real mythology“.

Disney claims many other times these stories are all taken from “real mythology”.

grrrrrIt sounds like quite the paradox! Is it real or is it mythology? We have heard before of jumbo shrimps and rubber bones for my pretty ugly dog. So what exactly does Disney mean when they say its “real mythology” anyway?

Tahiti Info’s website does a good job enlightening this mystery with an article they wrote The true origins of Disney princess Moana. They make a compelling argument that Moana is actually from Tutuila Island, in the American Samoa archipelago. What they also determine is that Disney is not simply using Hawaiian legend and lore as a pretext for their cartoon, but arguably, Disney may have gone to extreme lengths to maintain accuracy, possibly even in the depiction of Moana’s village which looks remarkably like Afono village on Tutuila in American Samoa.

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I will show you a few more examples of how far Disney had gone to depict this “real mythology”. Many other examples are just jumping out at me.

Maybe other people can find a few other references I have missed in the trailers, or possibly in the actual film this November.

The Moana Cartoon Trailers

The movie has not been released yet but Disney reveals quite a bit in their many trailers. What we know so far is a young girl named Moana teams up with the Trickster & shape shifting demigod Maui to save humanity from a “beast rising up out of the sea”. Everyone learns the power of love and lives happily ever after i’m guessing, but I have yet to see the entire film.

I don’t know where to start, but maybe a montage of the current available trailers is a good place. If you haven’t seen the Moana trailers yet. These are all the currently released trailers, including a Japanese one. It is about 6 minutes long and I will refer to it several times throughout this article. Watch this video first if you have the time.

Moana’s Quest

According to Disney’s Moana movie website, …Moana sails out on a daring mission to “save her people”. During her journey, Moana meets Maui, who guides her in her quest to become a master wayfinder. Together, they sail across the open ocean on an action-packed voyage, encountering enormous monsters and impossible odds, and along the way, Moana fulfills the ancient quest of her ancestors

One of the first “monsters” Moana meets along her journey is heralded by a lightning bolt striking the ocean.

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lightning falling from heaven @ :10 seconds

Here is a screenshot of the Moana trailer taken at :10 seconds. Nothing really to see here? For those of us familiar with the esoteric we know the #1 reference of Satan is “lighting falling from heaven” and is first referenced in this manner in Luke 10:18. Is this some of the “real mythology” being referred to by Disney?

In the upside down world of the occult, the lightning bolt has become one of the most popular symbols of satanists and occultists. Is Disney ignorant to these symbols? They seem to be so accurate in their attention to detail on all the other “real mythology” they portray. Whatever you believe about Disney, the next scene at :13 thirteen seconds seems to confirm my suspicions about the lightning bolt.

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“the beast out of the sea” @ 13 seconds

As soon as the lightning bolt hits the water, we see a flaming demon or devil rise up out of the sea.

This imagery is not new and found throughout film and literature. What you are seeing here is the “beast out of the sea”. Some may see this is a nod or a tribute to Godzilla which one of the first films to popularize the “beast out of the sea” meme in film. Now this sounds a lot like Revelation chapter 13 which describes precisely a rising “beast out of the sea”. The book of Revelation, found at the end of the New Testament, is what I refer to as “one of the scarier parts of the bible”. So I just realized something as I am typing this out. Revelation 13 is being depicted at the 13 second mark. Coincidence or more “real mythology” hidden in plain sight according to Disney’s Magic Kingdom?

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, (KJV)

mona2-2I keep coming across this image on the web. I don’t find it on any of the trailers so cant tell if it is the same lava monster we see in the trailer, or a different female lava monster. A lot of Disney fan websites seem to think its Madam Pele. If the Revelation 13 connection proves to hold water, this scene may somehow be referencing Revelation 17 which describes a woman “that sitteth upon many waters” (v1) and who also “sits upon the beast” (v3).

These guys at Disney are truly amazing. Disney again knocks this one out of the ballpark. They take an otherwise frightening concept previously only found in horror or sci-fi genres,  (like A.I. in Big Hero 6) and get 8 and 9 year old kids everywhere cheering for it. I have a very hard time sharing these scary stories with my kids but here Disney just hits another HOME RUN. This is just incredible how they repackage horror into kids films.

The Kakamora?

kakamora-fallback_05a9dffaAnother example or Disney’s “real mythology” are the Kakamora. At 1:25 Moana and Maui run into “The Kakamora”. The Kakamora are not cute little new Disney critters but more ancient “real mythology” just like Disney promised. According to South Pacific Melanesian lore, the Kakamora are cannibalistic little people, similar to gnomes, elves, dwarfs etc. The Mythology Dictionary, describes the Kakamora as: Spirits in Melanesia, living in trees and caves. These beings are envisaged as humanlike, with long nails, varying in size from a few inches to about five feet in height. They sometimes kill humans and eat their flesh.

1428605815mep_1Hawaiian mythology had similar beings called menehune.

There is a Christian Author named Steve Quayle who recently finished a book called “Little Creatures” and it catalogues many of the rest of these, the opposites of the Giants, the little people… Steve Quayle is a very thought provoking author. I can’t say if I agree/disagee with him, but I have enjoyed some of his other books. Find it also on Amazon here.

Curiously, an old book written by a Melanesian missionary, Charles Fox, portrayed the Kakamora as having angels wings.

Night on a Bald Mountain and Disney’s ideas about Hell

The “Night on a Bald Mountain” scene from the original Fantasia proves Disney has been introducing children to the devil, Hell and the occult since the 1940s. Only by now, in 2016 they have just gotten very good at making it a lot more fun.

What a contrast from the 1940s Disney “Fantasia” version of Hell and the kinder, gentler 2016 version of Hell in the new “Moana”.

bottomlesspitThe original Fantasia had ghoulish scenes of lost souls burning in Hell, while at 2:05 into the new Moana trailer we see Maui opening a seemingly bottomless pit which will take them “to the realm of monsters”

Maui gleefully jumps into the bottomless pit and beckons Moana to join him.

When Maui opens the pit he yells back to Moana “don’t worry its farther down than it looks” and after a few more seconds, “i’m still falling”. Moana still looks scared but she jumps.

The book of Revelation chapter 9 describes “a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit”.

Is this what Disney is portraying here? Is Maui depicting the angel of Revelation 9 opening the bottomless pit? (insert CERN and portal conspiracy theories here) I’m just trying to ask an honest question here, but again, I would have to think, their accuracy to the rest of the mythology in the film suggests they are not leaving any detail to chance in their cartoons.

This whole scene reminds me of Metallica’s Jump in the Fire song in the 1980s. The lyrics urged us (all kids at the time) to: Follow me now my child / not the meek or the mild / but do just as I say / So come on / Jump in the Fire

Deities and Demigods

Stories of the demi-gods are found all throughout the Pentateuch and the New Testament, although rarely taught on in the more common 501c3 type churches found around Hawaii and the USA.

According to the dictionaries, Demigods are beings who have some of the powers of a god : a being in mythology who is part god and part human.

How does somebody become part god/part human you may ask? That is kind of an R rated topic in most churches today but according to Genesis 6 and other parts of the Bible like Jude 6, and 2 Peter 2:4 it appears there were some angelic shenanigans going on around the time of Noah. Psalm 82:1, Revelation 12:7-9, Ephesians 6:9 and Job 1:6 all seem to confirm the existence and corruption of at least some of the Angelic realm.

We first see these part god/part men beings, sometimes referred to as “Giants”, “Titans” or “Nephilim” appear in Genesis 6. They are the unnatural offspring of the Sons of God and the Daughters of men.

They are often described as the “heroes of old” in many translations of Genesis. “when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown”. (NIV) 

Disney seems to go out of their way to make sure we all get that in the trailer when Maui corrects Moana in her worship of him in this next scene.

How to Worship Maui, according to Disney…

Disney wants to make sure Moana (and all our kids) are sure to worship Maui properly and never forget to call him by his proper name, the “hero of men”.

The worship scene takes place from 0:48 seconds through 1:05 when Maui corrects Moana in her praise and worship of him.

Please watch that clip again and also watch around 2:40-2:45 when Moana is again, clearly worshipping Maui again, her eyes closed, in complete devotion and prayer.

This is religion. Who needs church when we have Disney! “Moana and Maui will save us all” (watch again @ :15 to :26 seconds into the trailer). Just imagine if they taught us all to worship Jesus Christ so accurately!

The return of the Giants

I know many of my readers do not study the bible, so just to be clear, these offspring of the sons of God in Genesis 6 are NOT the good guys in that story. Specifically, the good guy is a man named Noah, but that is another story. The appearance of the Giants/Heroes/Nephilim in Genesis 6 is actually one of the reasons that God destroys the Earth in a global flood. The heroes of old/giants/nephilim are the bad guys. Maui is one of them. Even the Polynesian stories agree he is a trickster/deceiver. We do NOT worship Maui or any of the demi-gods. They are best not trifled with! This warning found on an old bumper sticker just might apply!

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Now this is where it gets interesting. Giants are having something of a renaissance in films these days. There are no shortage of new blockbuster films featuring and glorifying ancient tales of the Giants. Disneys “The BFG”, Percy Jackson’s Sea of Monsters, the Japanese anime “Attack on Titan” are just a few recent examples.

Several shows have recently appeared on the false History Channel like “Search for Lost Giants” and “Ancient Aliens” which popularize the same stories of the old Giants/Titans and demi-gods. Are Disney and the false History Channel cooperating in popularizing these false narratives of Earth’s ancient world? The History Channel is owned by Disney so hey, why not! They are all one big happy family.

Since I mentioned “Ancient Aliens”, Chris White does an EXCELLENT JOB debunking every single Ancient Aliens episode in this 3 hour long full length film. Save that link and watch it later as this is slightly off the main topic of Maui and the new Disney cartoon but real good stuff and it removes much of the mystery behind the movie magic and story telling here.

So why such a fascination with the Giants all of a sudden? I don’t know for certain what they are thinking in Hollywood but I do know what the Bible says about the topic.

Isaiah 13 describes and end of days judgement against Babylon where according to several translations, God says,

“I give command, and I bring them: giants are coming to fulfil my wrath, rejoicing at the same time and insulting”. (LXX)

Rejoicing at the same time and insulting? That sounds a little like the “trickster-pest god” maybe? Disney “real mythology” again? If you ask me, it sure does seem like Disney constantly hits bullseyes. They are precise!

revelationJesus himself says in Luke 17:26 and Matthew 24:37 that the end of time will be just like the “days of Noah”. Now, while many churches and theologians debate whether or not this means giants and demigods, the point here is Disney seems to think so, or at least think they can bank some serious coin on repackaging these old stories.

Maui’s Tattoos, Shapeshifting, and Moses references

I could go on and on. I’m not even going to start with Maui’s tattoos and the shapeshifting or the magical fishhook in the rest of the trailers but suffice it to say, I have barely scratched the surface here. At 3:55 we see a baby Moana parting the sea like Moses in Exodus. The symbolism just doesn’t stop.

In the Bible, Moses teaches the children of Israel to worship the true God. In Disney’s upside down Magic Kingdom, Moana is a false Moses, teaching our children to worship false gods.

Hawaiian Airlines Employees

If any Hawaiian Airlines employees have read this far please don’t take any offense. I’m not hating on Hawaiian. Many corporations and airlines honor the magical and the occult. I myself work for a corporation that has entire divisions named after the Giants of Greek mythology so what are we going to do? These symbols and references are more and more all around us. We are not supposed run away and hide in the forest or some remote island. Jesus Himself instructed His followers to “Occupy till I come”. (Luke 19:13) There’s not much else we can do except be educated and also to educate our children.

I will keep flying on Hawaiian when the opportunities arise, and I will also take my kids to see Moana sometime after Thanksgiving, and we will have great fun while doing it however, they will know beforehand exactly what it is they are watching.

I sometimes have to apologize to my kids. I think I ruin the fun for them sometimes but I am just being a good parent. Being entertained is a wonderful activity to enjoy together as a family however according to Deuteronomy chapter 6 our main purpose as parents is not to entertain our children, but rather instruct them! The buck stops here, with us.

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Much Aloha

 

Disney’s Moana Trailer, Maui and… Io?

Just thought i’d throw this brand new trailer up for Disney’s new “Moana” cartoon movie. I promise I have never seen it before writing my post yesterday. I just so happened to mention yesterday that my favorite god of the ancient Hawaiian pantheon was Maui. Oddly enough, the latest creation from Disney is a tale about the same exact demigod Maui, played by Dwayne, “The Rock” Johnson! Weird enough, but then at precisely 33 seconds into the Trailer Dwayne/Maui flips upside down and seems to yell out in his chant “Io”.

If you missed my article yesterday “Io” is the same entity referred to by Matt Higa and Daniel Kikawa in the linked foursquare convention 2016 video and the problematic and controversial book by Daniel Kikawa “Perpetuated in Righteousness”.

Well at least Matt Higa now has another reference besides “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”. Maybe Matt Higa and Daniel Kikawa can take out the whole church for movie night?

I think we’re going to get a YouTube channel going when I return to Hawaii next week. We will be looking for content (not really a problem at the moment) and guests to interview. If anyone wants to help me, debate me, agree or disagree with me, change the subject, whatever, sound off here first and leave me a message.

Higa and Kikawa can carry on and continue quoting Spielberg and now Disney, I will end today’s post with a few verses from Timothy.

As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine, Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

 

A Lamentation for the Prince

A few nights ago I heard that the musician Prince died. I was very familiar with Prince’s music and his career as my sister was a huge Prince fan back in the 1980’s. I wasn’t a fan but did recognize him as one of the most talented rock stars ever. He was worshiped by his fans and greatly respected by the rest of the music industry. He was as big as Elvis for our generation.

I just finished listening to Clyde Lewis “Sometimes it Snows in April, The Tale of an Apocalyptic Prince” as I trusted Clyde to do a very respectful and well researched tribute, while not missing a single detail. Clyde is one of the “weird” people I like to listen to on occasion and he does a good job. I don’t ever agree with all of his “opinions” but like I have said many times, I am an evidence guy and Clyde never disappoints with his evidence.

Like Clyde, I am disappointed by all the click-bait you-tubers and others who rush in to DILUTE the artist Prince’s life and death. There is a LOT to learn here without talking about unproven, baseless and unsupportable chemtrail and illuminati theories. Prince was a human being like the rest of us. Please respect the mans family, friends and his fans.

As the dust settles this weekend, there does appear to be an important message Prince was making, and I would like to share my opinion on it. We are saddened he died so young, but let’s see what we can learn from his life.

Before anything else here’s a video of Prince’s performance at the Super Bowl half time show in 2007. It is partly in tribute, but I will refer to the first song in the video “lets go crazy” a few times as we continue. Please watch this video before continuing.

The first of several oddities that are being talked about today is where Prince’s body was found. Several news outlets including Entertainment Tonight are reporting LA Reid, one of Princes close friends recalled “One time when I was with him privately, he said, ‘You know what the elevator is, right?’ I said, ‘No, what’s the elevator?’ He said, ‘Well, the elevator is the devil,'” Reid shared.

In the song “lets go crazy”, which starts out as a preacher giving a sermon, “dearly beloved we are gathered here together” Prince eerily warns us about the devil bringing us down, and uses an elevator to represent the devil. 34 years later, just this week, Prince dies in an elevator.

Cause in this life
Things are much harder than in the after world
In this life
You’re on your own

And if the elevator tries to bring you down
Go crazy, punch a higher floor

I find it very weird that a song written 34 years ago which starts out as a funeral eulogy “dearly beloved” just a few words later, predicts the same artists death precisely.

Prince seemed to know that what he was doing was wrong and he occasionally revealed to the rest of us how tormented he was on the inside. His symbol, the androgynous male and female symbol combined with a trumpet (7 trumpet judgements open up the apocalypse in the New Testament Book of Revelation) did seem to be prophetic again, and perfectly represented his apocalyptic version of life and sexual perversion “party like its 1999” and  “Darling Nikki” etc that was reflected in all his songs.

But life is just a party, and parties weren’t meant 2 last
War is all around us, my mind says prepare 2 fight
So if I gotta die I’m gonna listen 2 my body tonight

In the book “Prince, Chaos, Disorder, and Revolution” by Jason Draper we find this interesting story surrounding Prince’s “Black Album”. Prince thought the album was cursed and he begged Warner Brothers not to release it.  I had to take two screenshots because I couldn’t make the google-book fit to screen, but here you go.

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Whoa Nelly, hold it right there! Prince had an alter ego “Camille”? Where have we heard that before?

Thousands of years ago Greek philosophers Plato and Socrates taught us that the alter-ego controlling the actor was actually the “Demon” or the “Muse” and should be embraced.

We often see dancers on the stage or television who perform SO AMAZINGLY WELL on the stage, after the show they will recount how she was, “outside her body watching herself dance”.

We see alter ego’s in numerous musicians, David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, Beyonce Knowle’s Sasha Fierce, and hundreds of others all around us today.

It is well known many of Hollywood’s most elite actors channel spirits who help them “become a vehicle for the character”. These same actors and actresses readily tell others how they did such amazing jobs by “emptying myself and letting the spirit inhabit me”.

Irrelevant Record LabelsPrince seems to know he was being controlled as evidenced when he later paints “slave” on his face, shortly after the Black Album controversy. The only question is what was he being controlled by? Certainly the record labels are the usual suspects but what about this female alter ego we have never heard about except buried in the back pages of a seemingly inconsequential biography?

Did Prince have a demon or several demons? Did this demon channel through Prince these apocalyptic false prophecies such as “purple rain” and “1999”? (newsflash its 2016 and were all still here) Was Prince’s death channeled 34 years ago in the song “lets go crazy”? I guess it all depends on what you believe but I have presented to you the evidence.

To wrap it up, we need to ask ourselves 2 big questions. First, how much fame and stardom do we really want in this life? Take a look at our favorite “stars” like Prince. Look at him in his success. He tells us he was still a slave. Prince was warning all of us of the evil & darkness at work in the world and specifically the entertainment industry. Beware!

A better question to ask is this. How much freedom and liberty do we want in this life? The greatest freedom in life is through Christ and Him only. Hollywood, the entertainment industry and other colorful traps all around us are often destructive temptations and vanities that will only enslave us in the end.

Last thing is this. are we doing things that we know are wrong that we think we can’t ever change? This is a lie. While it is true we can’t change ourselves, through Christ, can we find physical and spiritual freedom. Prince seemed to know he was being tormented and he couldn’t break free. This reminds me of the bible verse warning us about misunderstanding our freedom in Christ.

Here is one verse taken from 1 Corinthians 6, but I encourage everyone to read the whole verse in its entire context here.

All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

While we can only speculate what power Prince was under, I say don’t worry about Prince anymore, he is in eternity now. We can not judge Prince or his actions or his songs, but we can take a hard look at his life and learn by his examples, good and bad. Prince seemed to be a highly enlightened individual who was aware of the spiritual world around him. I pray that Prince actually found forgiveness in Jesus Christ (the Word who became flesh, according to John) and did not die under the power of anything else. We don’t know for sure.

This is just a quick opinion and observation piece on my part. Several other strange “coincidences” surrounding the death of Prince are being circulated and discussed all around the internet today. I won’t go over any of the other discussions. Some of it is probably true, all of it sensational! I provided a link to Clyde Lewis’s article back at the beginning of this article and that may be a good place to go if you still want to read more.

Aloha All