A ti leaf offering is a sacred package wrapped in ti leaves and placed at a significant location to honor ancestors, loved ones, or scared beings.
But for those who are not conversant with what’s appropriate in context, in Native Hawaiian culture,
“The most appropriate offering that any person can make can be made without any tangible item being left behind. The most perfect offering is one’s aloha, ha, and olelo. To love a place, and breathe out that love in the form of a spoken promise to cherish and protect it, that is the most perfect offering.”
(Leilehua Yuen, from “Ho`okupu – Offerings”)
Image: collage by Christie Cochrell
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