Two Bears, you just taught me something. Most Hawaiian words use a change in article to indicate plural, for example: ka pua, the flower, na pua, the flowers. But according to my dictionary, kahuna becomes plural by adding a macron (kahakou) -- a dash -- over the first "a", stressing and lengthening it. (The "a" in the plural

This is correct. I did not remember how to display the dash above the first a so I capitalized the A to show it was emphasized.

Hawaiian words can have many different meanings depending on how it is spoken, the context it is used in.

Let's take the famous word Aloha for example.

Aloha can mean hello when used alone in a greeting.

Aloha in conyext can mean, love, mercy, compassion, friendship, pity, etc

If you emphasize the second sylable (I will use capital letters again) as in aloHA is goodbye. AloHA seperates the the word into two words alo ha. In this configuration; aloHA = (go with the breath of life).

I'm sure there are other words that make the plural that way, but I don't know them. Then again, I don't know very much Hawaiian!

Lots of Hawaiian words signify plurals that way.

I am not an expert on the Hawai'ian language either. I focus more on understanding the kahuna pule (prayer experts), understanding the physical and spiritual anatomy of the human being, and the use of life-force energy in prayer.

My dictionary defines kahuna as "priest, minister, sorcerer, expert in any profession." It can also be used as a verb. Some interesting combining forms of kahuna:

Not really. Kahuna was simply a title. It means master or expert.

kahuna 'ana'ana: sorcerer who practices black magic

The ana'ana were assassins for the ali'i (chiefs) The ana'ana were famous for praying people to death.

and my favorite, kahuna lapa'au: medical practitioner (literally, "expert in healing")

The kahuna lapa'au was not the only kahuna that did healing. The lapa'au used medicinal herbs.

There were kahunas that healed by using lomilomi (deep massage)

The kahuna pule healed with lifeforce energy. There are documented reports of these kahuna healing a broken bone (where the jagged bones were sticking through the skin) to being completely healed, and the person up walking around in just a few minutes.

I have never observed this myself; but I have seen some incredible things happen under my own hands to tell me that healing a broken bone in minutes IS possible.

Two years ago; I was at the laundrymat and I heard Tammy F scream. I went outside and asked her what was wrong. She told me she had injured her hand at work, and was unable to move her thumb.

I picked up her laundry baskets and carried them inside for her, then I told her that I was an energy healer, and offered to do a healing for her hand. She quickly told me that she did not believe in any of that crap, and furthermore; she had been to the doctor, and the doctor said that the ony way she would regain the use of her thumb was to have surgery to repair the injured nerves, muscles and tendons.

I told Tammy "If the energy does not help' it certainly will not harm; then she held out her hand. I did the deep breathing to accumulate the mana surcharge, then I held her hand between my hands. About 30 seconds into the healing she asked how my hands get so hot, then about 15 seconds later we both observed redness running up her arm. I released her hand after about 3 minutes, and asked her how she felt, she wiggled her thumb tentatively and droped her jaw in amazement, then she wiggled the thumb normally, and she said "Damn! This is Cool!"

I saw four miracles happen on November 22nd of last year when I gave a workshop on this spiritual technology in Atlanta, Ga.