Piko poʻo / laumeki — crown fontanelle gate

Upper piko · spirit contact and mana entry

Piko poʻo, rendered here with the name laumeki, is the crown fontanelle gate in the Hawaiian piko triad. It is treated as the upper point of mana concentration and as a place of spirit contact, without importing Māori wairua doctrine into this Hawaiian account.

Piko poʻo / laumeki — crown fontanelle gatePiko poʻo / laumeki — crown fontanelle gatePiko pupu o Hina-kui-a-Lono — navel centerGenital piko — generative gateMana at the head — highest tapu concentrationMana through the upper torso — descending fieldMana at the navel — life-centre fieldMana through the lower pelvis — generative fieldFeet — most profane mana boundary

Point 1 of 8 in Hawaiian Piko and Mana — Three Gates and the Sacred Gradient

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Samuel M. Kamakau, The Ruling Chiefs of Hawaiʻi (secondary_translation)

Historical Hawaiian accounts of sacred rank and mana support the crown as the upper sacred locus in this rendering.

Mary Kawena Pukui and E.W. Haertig, Nana I Ke Kumu (Look to the Source), Vol. I (primary)

Modern Hawaiian practice transmission used for piko terminology and the crown piko's life/spirit connection.

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