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| | Refracted Light: Coraline |
 | | Coraline doesn't find a fabulous destiny or telepathic unicorns; she finds a mirror replica of her home, and waiting in it are her "other mother" and "other father," who want her to stay with them so they can love her and play with her forever. | | | Coraline risks her life and soul to save people who are profoundly imperfect but whom she still loves deeply. | | | All she has to do is let them sew black buttons over her eyes, like the ones they have over theirs. |
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| | Excessive Candour |
| | So Coraline is the child in the fairy story who is given a task or three to accomplish, and through her success defeats the wicked parody mother, and reclaims her family and her world. | | | If Coraline had been a tale of horror, we would have expected her to have been dragged (as though by a hook) through what was not a portal at all but a cloaca, a outgushing gape of the Bad Place Within, which befouls the protagonist on contact. | | | Memes of this sort are most often found in tales of horror, but it is the peculiar magic of Coraline that, despite the horrific things that almost happen to its protagonist, the tale is not horror but fantasy (dark fantasy perhaps, but this is cookie-cutting). |
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| | Kidsreads.com - CORALINE by Neil Gaiman |
| | Coraline meets the ghosts of several other children who had been kidnapped hundreds of years ago, and she realizes that her both her body and spirit are in danger. | | | The "other mother" wants to keep Coraline there forever, and her intentions are hardly loving or parental. | | | This beautifully written, dark fairy tale finally acknowledges the underestimated and forgotten maturity of most young people; Gaiman isn't afraid to write a scary fantasy for children looking for more than just Disney-esque dragons and grounds-keeping giants. |
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| | Review : Coraline by Neil Gaiman - Children's Books |
| | I enjoyed the development of Coraline from what appears to be naivety in the beginning of the book to absolute courage and cleverness at the end. | | | She's so bored in fact that she begins counting the doors and windows in her house and that's when she discovers the 14th door, which is locked. | | | Gaiman, who wrote this book for his daughter, says he wanted to have a girl heroine and wanted it to be "refreshingly creepy." He succeeded on both counts. |
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| | SF REVIEWS.NET: Coraline / Neil Gaiman |
| | Coraline, a dark children's fairy tale readable in about an hour and a half, is an interesting book for Neil Gaiman to follow up American Gods with. | | | Yes, Coraline proves to be a girl of pluck and resourcefulness, but when Coraline has her final showdown with the evil here in the real world, that's when fantasy really does take over. | | | Exploring the flat, Coraline finds only one locked door, which her mother soon shows her leads nowhere; it was bricked over when the house was converted into flats. |
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| | The "other mother" captures Coraline's parents, and she goes through a brief series of quests to rescue them (and also the souls of three children who are injected into the narrative really as something extra for her to do). | | | The initial tension in Coraline is that her parents are too busy to pay attention to her, and cook meals that she doesn't like; the attraction of the "other mother" is that she promises love, and attention, and good food. | | | The prose is graceful, and the characters of Coraline and her parents nicely observed. |
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| | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Coraline at Epinions.com |
| | Coraline is an engaging heroine with the kind of natural curiosity that makes us we understand how her distracted parents simply would not be enough to keep her happy in a strange place on a rainy day. | | | Once Coraline goes through that passageway, she enters a world where nothing is quite right. | | | Where Coraline fails its intended audience is in the fleshing out of the story. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Little 'Coraline' opens door to an 'other' world |
| | Neil Gaiman, award-winning author of American Gods and the Sandman series, breaks from writing adult fairy tales to bring fans Coraline, the tale of a bored little girl who, while exploring her family's new apartment, discovers a door that opens to a sinister world. | | | Gaiman skillfully tells this spine-chilling tale from Coraline's perspective. | | | This sensible girl never questions what the "other" mother is or why it has chosen to torment her. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/2002/07-16-gaiman.htm
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| | Neil Gaiman, Coraline |
| | The tale sweeps you away into his strange otherworld, where nothing exists outside of the realm of the other-mother, and Coraline must solve the mysteries posed by the disappearance of her parents and the appearance of three ghost children. | | | This book is recommended for children ages 8 and older, but I would strongly suggest that parents read this book first (well, for your own enjoyment too!) before deciding if it is right for your child. | | | I loved and enjoyed Coraline thoroughly, and anyone who liked Neverwhere will find this just as fascinating. |
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| | Bureau 42 Coraline |
| | She has kidnapped Coraline's parents, and her closet contains the souls of other lost children who have fallen into her spidery clutches. | | | Coraline faces a seductively deceptive and ultimately very nasty adversary. | | | Her grotesque "other" mother who lives there has buttons for eyes, and wants to sew similar ones onto Coraline and keep the child there forever. |
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| | Review: Neil Gaiman's Coraline, reviewed by Tim Pratt |
| | Things take a turn for the even-worse when Coraline meets the ghosts of children the other mother has "loved" in the past, and realizes what her own fate will be if she doesn't defeat the creature. | | | Being a sensible child, Coraline calls the police, and explains the whole situation to them. | | | But before I get to the book in more detail, I'd like to say something about the author, and why Coraline is his crowning accomplishment. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books By genre Review: Coraline by Neil Gaiman |
| | This is the best point of view from which to tell a story about a child: the telling voice is an adult's, so it can plausibly observe and say things a child would not, but all the sympathy is with the child. | | | Neil Gaiman made his name as a writer of graphic novels, but he showed himself to be a skilful novelist of the text-only sort, too, with American Gods, an exceptionally original fantasy-horror story. | | | And so begins a struggle for Coraline's soul. |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/childrenandteens/0,6121,783536,00.html
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| | Book Review: Coraline |
| | Coraline goes though it to discover a world just enough unlike her own to be disturbing. | | | The U.S. edition of Coraline is graced with the magnificent and layered artwork of Dave McKean (who did covers for Gaiman's Sandman series as well as the illustrations for The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish) while the British edition has no illustrations at all. | | | I was able to attend this evening event, which lasted 4 hours (including a half-hour break for cookies and lemonade) and was an utterly delightful introduction to the book. |
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| | BookBlog: Coraline Begins Here |
| | Then maybe we would have a better understanding of who Coraline was and how/why Coraline was able to find the clues and make the decisions she did in the time span it took her to do so. | | | However, I attribute that to the fact that it is a children's book and therefore, the author wanted it to be kept shorter. | | | I would have loved more information on Coraline and the other characters before jumping right into the story. |
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| | Amazon.com: Coraline: Books: Neil Gaiman,Dave McKean |
| | Coraline is an excellent book that contains every quality a good book should contain and more. | | | To make creepy creepier, Coraline has been illustrated masterfully in scritchy, terrifying ink drawings by British mixed-media artist and Sandman cover illustrator Dave McKean. | | | British novelist Gaiman (American Gods; Stardust) and his long-time accomplice McKean (collaborators on a number of Gaiman's Sandman graphic novels as well as The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish) spin an electrifyingly creepy tale likely to haunt young readers for many moons. |
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| | Brainy rats, a talking cat, ballistic elves |
| | "Coraline" is a book that can be read quickly and enjoyed deeply, one likely to lure many readers back for a second or third go-round. | | | After getting away from these bizarre creatures, Coraline discovers that her real mother and father have been stolen by the more-than-a-little-mad other mother. | | | Like "The Amazing Maurice," it features a cat that can talk when it wants to, but the rats that play a small part in the tale are far less charming and far more menacing than Pratchett's. |
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| | Reviews of Fantasy and Science Fiction Books -- *Writers Write -- The IWJ* |
| | Coraline's other mother and other father shower Coraline with praise, and ask her to stay with them forever. | | | With the help of a somewhat grumpy talking cat, she will do her best to outwit the monster with the shiny button eyes, the long white hands and the insatiable appetite for children's souls. | | | Adding to the atmosphere are the disturbingly appealing pen and ink illustrations by the talented Dave McKean. |
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| | Neil Gaiman: Coraline |
| | Coraline’s tale is short, but only because Gaiman doesn’t insist on unnecessary padding to lengthen the book. | | | It is written as a children’s book and will serve as a horror tale for those children who wish to read such things. | | | Gaiman does a good job in portraying his characters and their situations. |
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| | : RevolutionSF - Coraline : Review |
| | The moral of the story is clear enough, as it ought to be in a book written for children; but that doesn't detract from the charm in Gaiman's language or his gift for evocative scenery and wholly human characterization. | | | Gaiman is famous for his work in dark modern fantasy, having earned critical praise throughout the 1990s for his Sandman comics and prose and the BBC miniseries Neverwhere, for which he wrote the screenplay and novelization, not to mention his recent hit American Gods. | | | Alternately whimsical, creepy, charming and dreamy, it is written with elegant prose perfectly suited to its audience, simple in structure and language without ever condescending to the reader. |
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| | Coraline - Neil Gaiman - Review - "Coraline" - O' wickedly twisted fairy tale |
| | With the natural curiosity that all young children possess, Coraline goes on an exploration of the house and its grounds. | | | She comes to realise that they have been captured and imprisoned by her other mother – a gruesome entity who has created the world beyond the locked door. | | | Coraline - Neil Gaiman - Review - "Coraline" - O' wickedly twisted fairy tale |
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| | Neil Gaiman, Coraline |
| | The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish, which is listed as his other children's tale, is a dessert souffle -- sweet but not very filling.) Coraline is definitely a children's book, with developed characters, an odd setting, and a really weird plot line. | | | After you finish it, I recommend that, if you haven't read them yet, you pick up copies of American Gods, Neverwhere, and Stardust to see what he can do when give space to develop both the characters and plot at length. | | | We've even reviewed his Day of the Dead: an Annotated Babylon 5 Script, and multiple versions of his Stardust novel -- both the illustrated and just 'plain text' editions. |
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| | Neil Gaiman: Coraline |
| | Apparently they've never read any British children's literature, or they'd realize this just begs for disaster: ghosts, or sand fairies, or counterfeiters, or at the very least the culmination of an ancient battle between Good and Evil. | | | The book design is lovely, too, with illustrations by Dave McKean that are wonderfully dark and askew. | | | If you're not a particular fan of Gaiman's writing, I'd recommend waiting for the paperback. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Coraline: Search Results All Products |
| | Coraline by Neil Gaiman (Author), Dave McKean (Illustrator) (Paperback - April 22, 2004) | | | Coraline by Neil Gaiman (Author), Dave McKean (Illustrator) (Hardcover - July 4, 2002) | | | Coraline [Large Print] by Neil Gaiman (Author), Dave McKean (Illustrator) (Hardcover - August 2003) |
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| | BookCrossing Coraline by Neil Gaiman - Review - BookCrossing |
| | Coraline's persistence in protecting those she loves and in the end appreciating who she is make this a good read for all ages. | | | Coraline was a clever and brave heroine and I love that Neil Gaiman wrote this book for his daughters. | | | But the lessons of the book are great and not thown in your face like some young adult books do. |
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| | A Review of Coraline by Neil Gaiman :: The Compulsive Reader :: A Haven for Book Lovers |
| | The button eyes is a really good touch, which hints at a familiar nightmare image - for Coraline to stay with her "other" parents forever, she must allow them to sew buttons on her eyes. | | | While exploring the house, she comes upon a locked door, behind which is a brick wall. | | | A Review of Coraline by Neil Gaiman :: The Compulsive Reader :: A Haven for Book Lovers |
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| | Coraline - Talk It Up! Book Discussion Groups for Kids - Multnomah County Library |
| | Coraline explains to the old man upstairs, "I don't want whatever I want. | | | At first it looks familiar, even intriguing, but Coraline quickly learns that evil lurks there. | | | After Coraline returns to the real world she receives clues that the other mother's work is not done. |
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| | BookPage Children's Review: Coraline |
| | Gaiman has said that of all his books, Coraline "took the longest to write, and it's the book I'm proudest of." And for good reason. | | | Despite her growing fear, she must return and find a way to save them—and escape her other mother's vengeful anger. | | | Soon, her other parents want to replace her eyes with shiny black buttons like theirs in order to keep her with them "for ever and always," and Coraline decides to flee to the comfort of her real parents. |
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| | Coraline By Neil Gaiman |
| | To get something one must make sacrifices, and here is where Coraline will learn the truth about love and loyalty as she is forced to search for an inner strength to match wits against a darkness meant to destroy her. | | | There are two retired actresses and old man who talks to mice and swears they talk to him. | | | At first, Coraline likes the other parents, because they play with her and cook food she likes, but not all is as it seems. |
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| | Coraline film movie trailer review at The Z Review |
| | The movie will be written and directed by Henry Selick amd is being produced by Laika Entertainment and will tell the tale of a bored girl who discovers that bricked-up wall behind a door in her flat leads to another world, with another mother, and another father. | | | Author Neil Gaiman revealed that Michelle Pfeiffer is to star in an adaptation of his children's book Coraline. | | | Coraline Based On : The children's book by Neil Gaiman. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Coraline: Books |
| | To make creepy creepier, Coraline has been illustrated masterfully in scritchy, terrifying ink drawings by British mixed-media artist and Sandman cover illustrator Dave McKean. | | | But then again part of the appeal of Gaiman's work has always been about the mystique and unexplained weirdness of his tales. | | | I loved how Gaiman used the short length of his story to his advantage. |
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| | The SF Site Featured Review: Coraline |
| | When I was eight (the book cover says that is suitable for ages eight and up), I probably would have loved Coraline's adventures, completely unworried about the consequences of her actions. | | | Dave McKean did a marvelous these pen and ink illustrations, managing to convey an Edward Gorey feel with out subverting his own interesting style. | | | I also like Coraline as a character better. |
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| | The Annual Back to School Column: Neil Gaiman’s Coraline |
| | Gaiman kept me plastered to the couch last night with Coraline, his latest foray into children’s literature (illustrations by Dave McKean). | | | Spink warn her against so that she doesn’t forget and fall down it. | | | When Coraline returns home, she discovers her own parents are missing. |
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| | Perfect mom is a nightmare csmonitor.com |
| | Coraline, the bored young girl at the center of Neil Gaiman's beautifully spooky tale, proves no exception. | | | He begins with a quote from G.K. Chesterton: "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." | | | But when she goes back home through the passage, she finds that her real parents are gone and that her "other mother" has no intention of letting her new daughter escape her loving embrace. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Coraline: Books |
| | I liked the way the book didn't end with Coraline escaping the other mother, and the book was fiercely logical throughout, which always adds to believability (the worst crime a fantasy can commit is being unbelievable). | | | This time, however, there is a dark hallway in front of her. | | | Coraline is a strong and inspirational character for children. |
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| | Coraline Book Reviews for Kids by Kids SUPER READERS Book Review |
| | She soon realizes that her "mother" is not good, so Coraline tries to escape. | | | This book is about a girl named Coraline | | | Coraline's mother and father are also in this other world, but they seem to be different. |
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| | SimpleWeblog: Book Review: Coraline (Gaiman) |
| | It is a fairly typical fairy tale, although it is set in a contemporary environment and it features a really strong female protagonist. | | | I think Coraline's character effectively captured the personality of a smart child, which is a not insignificant task. | | | I was sitting, listening to Neil Gaiman read his new book Coraline, wondering "When I write this up for my weblog, should I label it as a Book Review or an Event Report or make two separate entries or what?" |
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| | andPOP Dakota Fanning to Voice Coraline |
| | Coraline will be based on Neil Gaiman's best-selling children's book of the same name. | | | But then Coraline realizes her Other Parents want to keep her forever. | | | (andPOP) - Child star extraordinaire Dakota Fanning has signed on to voice the title character in the upcoming animated movie Coraline. |
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| | Neil Gaiman, Coraline (audio book) |
| | A cautionary tale with a moral similar to that of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Coraline doesn’t exactly break new ground, and I’m not sure that I would have found the printed version of this story to be remarkable. | | | I really think I got lucky because this audio book is, in fact, my first. | | | As an avid reader I’ve avoided them up to this point as a matter of principle but, read by the author himself, this unabridged audio version of Coraline qualifies as a must listen. |
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| | TANGMONKEY.COM [ Coraline ] |
| | The illustrations by Dave McKean (who also worked with Gaiman on The Sandman comic book series) are wonderfully creepy, and it’s the sort of book that kids will love. | | | The story seems to be merely a device for showcasing the Otherworld. | | | The world that Coraline discovers has been created for her by her Other Mother, a powerful being with long black fingernails and buttons for eyes. |
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| | ICv2 News - 'Coraline' Movie Set |
| | Dave McKean's excellent illustrations for Coraline should provide the perfect visual cues for the production of a film that is as haunting, scary, and perhaps as funny Gaiman's original book, which deserves a spot next to Roald Dahl's tales in the pantheon of "dark" children's literature. | | | Nike founder Phil Knight bought the Portland-based Vinton Studios in 2003 and recently re-christened the premier stop motion animation studio "Laika Entertainment." Coraline, which sold more than 130,000 copies in hardcover, also earned Neil Gaiman his second Hugo Award (see "Neil Gaiman Wins Second Hugo"). | | | The Portland, Oregon-based stop motion animation boutique, Laika Entertainment, is about to begin production on its first CG-animated feature, which is based on Neil Gaiman's award winning kids' novel, Coraline. |
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| | Salon.com Books Kids lit grows up |
| | The adult readership for children's books stands to become even larger this fall as some writers with certifiable literary standing and large adult followings publish kids books. | | | Why Gaiman's "Coraline" succeeds, and Isabel Allende's kids book stinks | | | I know of at least three who worshipped it as kids.) |
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| | Neil Gaiman - Neil Gaiman's Journal |
| | Can you tell me how to pronounce the title of your book "Coraline"? | | | From which I discovered that a) Coraline was a real name before ever I made it up, and b) it was pronounced "Coral-een". | | | I pronounce it Coraline (to rhyme with "horror-wine"), because I thought I'd made it up, and that was how I wanted to pronounce it. |
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| | FishGeeks :: Tropical fish - Marine Fish - Aquarium Fish - Pond Fish - Aquatic Plants |
| | it seems like coraline will find your glass first.... | | | Some coraline doesn't like intense lighting and may take a while to build back up-- when/if it comes back I would expect to see it on the sides of the rock first (where it is less intense)... | | | Coraline does like good flow-- I had great growth in my overflow box. |
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| | FilmStew.com • Fanning Correlates to Coraline |
| | It will be an honor to work with her." | | | After receiving positive reviews for her work in Dreamer, Dakota Fanning will next lend her voice to Henry Selick's Coraline. | | | Last great book I read: "The dictionary, then the Cliff Notes for The Dictionary." |
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| | Supernatural |
| | Coraline's adventures begin when she finds a secret passage, and yours can begin once you download this screensaver! |
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| | eveninghawk’s links » Blog Archive » coraline |
| | I love Coraline’s attitude and faith in herself, her resourcefulness makes her a great strong girl character that seems more like a normal girl who just has a level head. | | | I look forward to sharing this book with my neices and seeing what they make of the “other mother.” | | | Heck, even a fourth grader so long as they don’t scare easily. |
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| | It started out as an university project, but we put so much effort in it that we thought it was a pity not to show it to somebody else. | | | Coraline is written by Neil Gaiman, all rights reserved |
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| | Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel |
| | Neil Gaiman, author of the fantastical children's book Coraline, announced on his official Web site that director Henry Selik (Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas) is going forward with an animated version of the book. | | | Coraline was optioned shortly after its release in 2002. | | | Gaiman said he was notified at last weekend's World Science Fiction Convention in Boston that the option has been exercised. |
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| | Fishpond 'Ohana Restoration - Maui: The First Wave |
| | The foundation stones were firmly set in pebbles, then coraline poured in for stability. | | | The wood that had been shaped and smoothed into poles were put in place then securely tied with the cord. | | | The kahuna set the first piece of timber after he offered a pig or dog in sacrifice and said the pule ho'onoa (prayer) that released the kapu. |
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