Malama Johnson
Names: Malama JohnsonMalamathe kahunaTutuHawaiian Witch
First appears in Book 2: Jack the Bodiless, chapter 38 (35 FROM THE MEMOIRS OF ROGATIEN REMILLARD)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 38Malama, the aged Hawaiian cook at the Kendall house on Kauai, is a kahuna who taught Jack psychocreative tricks and told him to hide them until his selves were controlled.
- Ch 38Malama taught Jack the three selves of huna: unihipili (Low Self), uhane (Middle Self) and amakua (High Self, superconscious source of mana loa).
- Ch 41A kahuna who cared for Teresa, Jack and Rogi in exile; she is operant and knows about Fury.
- Ch 41She told Marc that Teresa used the anana to try to take Jack with her, calling it a sin against huna.
- Ch 41She said Jack would not die now and that Marc could call on her if Jack is ever in serious trouble.
- Ch 42Malama visits Jack in excorporeal excursion and agrees with his analysis of Hydra; her actions at Keaku Cave were symbolic.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 1A kahuna who seemed to think the Ghost had visited the cave before.
- Ch 18Malama Johnson is a powerful Hawaiian kahuna woman and old friend of Rogi on Kauai, expected to keep him safe.
- Ch 20Malama is a Catholic Hawaiian kahuna lapaau healer who teaches Dee huna and has released many of Dee's mind-blocks in two days.
- Ch 20Malama checks the metapsychic identity of everyone on the island each night, when her mana is strongest, to detect Hydras.
- Ch 20Malama is a Hawaiian kahuna who healed Dee, gave her the Hawaiian name Makana Lani, and will teach her to farspeak Jack without subspace radio.
- Ch 20Malama coerced two windsurfer boys to rescue Dee, overriding an attempt by Madeleine to deflect them.
- Ch 22Malama Johnson, a Hawaiian kahuna, tells Dee to return to Islay, relive the trauma and begin the healing journey at the end and go back to the beginning.
- Ch 22Malama believes in genuine ghosts, though sophisticated Human Polity metapsychics do not accept that malignant personality aspects survive death.
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 1Malama is a stout Hawaiian kahuna woman and metapsychic huna practitioner, Rogi's friend, who relays messages from the Lylmik and arranges the meeting at her Kukuiula Bay house.
- Ch 1Malama holds that history is immutable, yet actions are freely done, and that Unifex atoned for his crimes and guided the Milieu for good.
- Ch 1Malama calls the three listeners her grandchildren and uses huna healing to embrace their minds while she speaks.
- Ch 1Malama calmly explains that Marc's worst sin was the Mental Man project, not the Rebellion's violent conflict.
- Ch 10Malama is a Hawaiian friend of Rogatien who shielded him with kahuna protection at her Kauai home and serves as flower 'girl'.
- Ch 28Malama is a white-haired Polynesian friend of the Remillard family who answers at the Johnson residence.
Connections
- related toJacktaught him psychocreativity
- family ofOlahusband and wife
- ally ofJacktaught him to shut Fury out
- friend ofRogi Remillard
- ally ofDiamond Maskteaches her huna
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 38Jack reveals his creativity
In the frat house game room Jack gives Alex and Pete a Ping-Pong ball whose polymers he psychocreatively altered, then admits to Marc he has secretly practiced creativity, taught by the kahuna Malama.
- Book 2 · Ch 41Teresa's ashes taken to Keaku Cave
After a service at Saint Raphael's, Rogi, Marc and Malama took Teresa's ashes to Keaku Cave, where Malama and Marc placed them with leis.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Escape from the Spouting Horn
Drowning in the lava tube, Dee follows Angel's hint, freezes water to plug the blowhole and superheats the chamber, blasting herself and the child out to sea before passing out; Malama sends windsurfers to rescue her.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Dee recovers and learns Mikey vanished
Dee wakes healed in Malama's house and learns no child was found, realising the 'Mikey' was part of an ambush.
- Book 4 · Ch 1Rogi finishes the volume and is rebuffed by the Ghost
At dawn Rogi completes the memoir volume, is troubled by a final line about Fury, and angrily demands answers from the silent Family Ghost. Malama telepathically tells him to visit her that afternoon.
- Book 4 · Ch 1Meeting with Cloud and Hagen
At Malama's house Rogi meets Cloud and Hagen, sent by Lylmik Unifex to discuss their Pliocene exile. They reveal Unifex is their father Marc, and Rogi asks them to tell the Mental Man story.
- Book 4 · Ch 1Malama reveals Marc's worst sin
Malama tells her silent grandchildren that Marc's worst sin was the Mental Man project, which he knew was wrong, and that Unifex is still too ashamed to speak of it.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Rogatien hides in Kauai
After surviving the drowning attempt, Rogatien flies to Kauai where Malama protects him, then returns for the wedding rehearsal.
- Book 4 · Ch 28Cyndia calls Rogi
Cyndia secretly phones Rogi on Earth, learns the visitor was really Batège and is now dead, and that only Marc remains of the family's dark secret.