Mo'o

Mo'o gods and goddesses of water management -- the dragons alive today as they have always. 
Mo'o the name for backbone old, and new born. 
Mo'o waited while old women pick at scrap yards for the truth. 
Mo'o who maintains keen vision and even sharper nostrils. 
Mo'o tends the water, sniffs out lies, eats them whole. 
Mo'o who gives her name to story, like pue'o leaving pellets... Mo'olelo. 
Mo'o on your wall, on your screens click, click, click.
Mo'o in the waters fresh and brackish, that dragon never sleeps. 
Mo'o now the name lives .

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Design Credit: The Mo'o pictured here is from the Aumakua Series by the artist AIKS, who I have been unable to properly identify. The design sits on the back of an old tee shirt that has been reclaimed, recycled and worked with an embroidered patch to save her claw.

Now, go to the Muliwai