Kauai Dreaming

The land

Mountainside under warm broadleaf forest, 167 m up; brooks and springs in the folds of the ground; on the coast; hot and wet the year round.

Cover

warm broadleaf forest

Elevation

167 m

Relief

mountainside

Fresh water

brooks and springs in the folds of the ground

The sea

on the coast

Climate

hot and wet the year round

The patch

about 1.85 km north to south and 1.72 km across; 1,853 m north to south, 1,716 m east to west, 3.18 km²

Centre

22.1750°N 159.6417°W

What the land offers a builder

Of this land: timber, living plant, earth, stone, marble, slate, sand, shell, coral, hide, bone, cloth, rope, bronze, iron, gold, glass, fire. Of the region: reed, water. The land allows: ground, stilts, carved, canopy, spanning.

Now

Storm and warm here, 17:04 local, the rains, as always.

The wild

Animals here this month: whale (migrating), shark (feeding), eagle (feeding), sea turtle (feeding), dolphin (feeding), tuna (passing).

This season: a mast year.

The lay of the land

• The low knoll (knoll): a rounded rise with a clear view across the surrounding patch
• The north hill (hill): a broad shoulder of high ground dry underfoot after rain

What stands here

THE TIMBER HOUSE — on the low knoll. House-sized, about 6 m. Timber, living plant, stone. On the ground.
"A stout timber house roofed with living plant, set low out of the wind with a central hearth"
A roof of living plant atop the top: pitched low to shed rain and heavy gusts. A hearth of stone inside the centre: set with flat stones to hold the embers through the night. A doorway of timber facing the south: fitted with a heavy latch on the leeward side. A storage rack of timber along the north side, hung with dry provisions, cordage, and spare gear.
Of this land: timber, living plant, stone.

THE WAY SHRINE — beside the north hill. Small, about 4 m. Timber, reed, bronze. On the ground.
"A quiet timber enclosure with a carved post and a sheltered offering shelf"
An altar stone of timber inside the centre: worn smooth by salt air and rain. A lantern hook of bronze at the front: lit at dusk when travellers are abroad.
Of this land: timber, bronze. Of the region: reed.

The story, as Mireille Blanc tells it

Of the place

• Inner Bar Hold was laid out by Mireille Blanc, who marked the low knoll first and set the timber house to face out of the prevailing weather.

Of the people

• They keep a dry stack of fuel beside the timber house and share the first meal at the hearth with any traveller who crosses the low knoll. (heard when a people lives here)
• Before winter sets in they check the lashings and stones of the way shrine and sing the names of the first four who came. (heard when a people lives here)

The people

THE PEOPLE OF KAUAI DREAMING — fishers, gatherers, and gardeners, settled, in hearth households.
Names from their own tongue. They hold the sea sacred.
They keep: the first-catch feast; hospitality to strangers; burial in a cairn; boats sung in; songs at the water.
They like timber, stone, clear, and cod. They dislike storm, fog, and heat. Open to strangers.
Their words: hearth gawbounour, river or sea rounal, winter or the rains buwnun, the dead lumouwub, home thasu, stranger wogammeif, feast theiganal, child beirwosma, old one geilloulthel, the place Nalliwrar, the beast lire, the sky anrouleith.
Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines.

Ways

fishing, gathering, gardening

Settlement

settled

Kinship

hearth households

Marriage

either

Naming

given names

To strangers

open

They hold sacred

the sea

They keep

the first-catch feast; hospitality to strangers; burial in a cairn; boats sung in; songs at the water

They like

timber, stone, clear and cod

They dislike

storm, fog and heat

Founders

4

Counted

4 named folk, a household of 0, 0 born here, 0 died here

Founded

9 November 2026

Their words

hearth gawbounour, river or sea rounal, winter or the rains buwnun, the dead lumouwub, home thasu, stranger wogammeif, feast theiganal, child beirwosma, old one geilloulthel, the place Nalliwrar, the beast lire, the sky anrouleith.

Their lore

• They keep a dry stack of fuel beside the timber house and share the first meal at the hearth with any traveller who crosses the low knoll.
• Before winter sets in they check the lashings and stones of the way shrine and sing the names of the first four who came.

Named folk

The chronicle

Every line is a record the land wrote; the names in quotes are the owner's words. What the chronicle does not say did not happen.

Year 1

The annals: 1 first roof; 1 founders; 2 passage; 1 people founded; 1 tracks; 1 ways changed.

• The rains, as always, the first year of Kauai Dreaming: the first roof went up at Kauai Dreaming: the timber house. kept
• The rains, as always, the first year of Kauai Dreaming: the ways of the people changed: name. kept
• The rains, as always, the first year of Inner Bar Hold: whale passed through Inner Bar Hold, migrating.
• The rains, as always, the first year of Inner Bar Hold: wild boar tracks across the spot.
• The rains, as always, the first year of Inner Bar Hold: whale passed through Inner Bar Hold, migrating.
• The rains, as always, the first year of Inner Bar Hold: four came to Inner Bar Hold and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Famawlu", the fire-keeper "Sileim", the keeper of the shrine "Ofdei", the lamp-lighter "Mifour". kept
• The rains, as always, the first year of Inner Bar Hold: Mireille Blanc called a people to Inner Bar Hold: the people of Inner Bar Hold. kept

Here now

the net-mender "Famawlu" (folk) · the fire-keeper "Sileim" (folk) · the keeper of the shrine "Ofdei" (folk) · the lamp-lighter "Mifour" (folk)