I was just referred to an article from the Sept 2 issue of the Big Island Weekly’s Pidgin Page entitled “Greek Hawaiians” by Sage Takehiro — you can check it out online here.

Highlights include:

Greek culture is super into God. I stay looking at some iconograph tingies and mostly everybody get one circle behind their head. Das da halo, suppose to symbolize dat da person is one saint cuz da bugga radiate, not radiation bu, radiate like sunlight. But no really look like da kine halo above their head like da angel fo’ da Krismiss tree. Da circle is direckly be-hine da guys’ head okay like da kine get da circle, anden boom get da guys’ head right smack dads in da middle of da circle, look like could be one holy air bubble jus in case gotta go dive.

So the Greek artist man who drew the pics I looking at, his name Diamantis Cassis (howz dat for a name pretty classic ah), anyways, uncle said they would have square halos too but da square ones was for the buggas dat was still alive, dey neva did cross ova yet. Greek mythology is like Hawaiian mythology, and das one of my main supporting arguments in why we should breed more hapa Greeks.

Diamantis said dat what makes Greek art classic is da fack dat is all based on God. It’s holy mythology, sacred like moolelo. And let me tell you, Greek sculptures are so beautiful you almost like lick da marble man arms I no joke you. You tink he’s all pretty and nice little do you know he’s just mathematics and optical illusions. These guys with circles around their heads was makawalu, maybe even makaiwa but nah let’s not get into prophecy today.