`A`ama Crab...

The quick moving agile 'a'ama crab scurries over the wave battered rocks. Some like to catch you and suck the meat right out of your legs. Ouch! `A`ama also means to spread and relax. That's why you were sometimes offered as an additional sacrifice to the akua to help loosen them up so that they would be more inclined to grant the request behind the main offerings. Interesting. If you ever see 'a'ama crabs scurrying about, dodging incoming waves and quickly dissappearing at the slightest visual provocation of a threat. They appear very uptight and are anything but relaxed...