Ancient Polynesian practice, which in Hawaii has grown into a psychoreligious system. Many legends have come down through oral tradition but details of the system's true origins have been lost.
The Huna belief is that each person is divided into three "selves": the low, middle, and high. These parts correspond, roughly, to our subconscious, conscious, and supraconscious minds. By embodying the power of mana, spiritual awareness of the three selves can be brought about.
To the Kahunas (practitioners of Huna), the whole creation — mortals, gods, and the whole of nature — is pervaded by mana. Religion was concerned with controlling and directing mana, with increasing it where it was needed, with shielding man from its dangers. Mana power comes down through the divine ancestors and enters into all beings descended from them. A Polynesian chief was regarded as being directly descended from the gods and, therefore, was especially charged with great mana.
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