Talk:Nightmarchers

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• This seems to be written for a younger audience, but via Google Books, Betty Dunford, The Hawaiians of Old:"Night Marchesr. Hawaiians believed ghosts of those who died long ago came back to earth. They came back and marched on certain nights of the moon, along certain old paths. Mostly those paths led to old heiau. The ghosts carried toraches. The ghosts chanted. Sometimes Hawaiians heard drums and flutes with the marchers. Hawaiians believed that people who saw the marchers might be killed. If they lay down, they might be safe. People might also be safe if a ghost they saw was their relative. Some people believeHawaiian ghosts still march in Hawai'i today." Bucketsofg 15:04, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
• Also, see here, where we they appear in a Hawaiian dictionary: in Hawaian it is huaka'i po. Bucketsofg 15:07, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Yep, according to that dictionary huaka'i trip, voyage, parade, pō night, so huaka'i pō = night marchers [spirits said to roam at night]. I suggest rename to huakai po, then to huaka'i pō and then maybe someone in Hawaii will add the okina instead of the apostrophe to represent the glottal stop. That way someone searching for Nightmarchers will still get it as will someone leaving off the diacritics. It kind of reminds me a little of the NZ trad of spirits of the recently dead travelling to the far northern tip of NZ, whence they dive into the sea and head north to the spirit world/Hawaiki Kahuroa 16:19, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Go ahead and rename--that seems to be the best course. Bucketsofg 17:43, 31 March 2006 (UTC)