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The landscape of Haena, like many places in the Hawaiian Islands, is adorned with place names that hold stories about historical events and legendary feats. Modern geographers talk about place names as "humanizing" the landscape--transforming the physical environment into a cultural world meaningful to human society. Hawaiians, Carlos tells us, went further and embedded important information into the landscape. Stories about places and place names contain lessons about pono(proper, correct, or moral) behavior: "They provide lessons, examples, through the words and through the eyes of the stories and of our ancestors. Place names themselves are messages from the ancestors that contain warnings, or urgings to look at something important there. They're stories about how to live." This chapter has been entitled "Footprints" to emphasize that such stories and names are the marks left on the landscape, not only by those who came before, but in some cases by gods and supernatural beings, as they travelled this land.
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