Metaphysical properties of the Kahelelani Shells

Many aboriginal tribes from around the world believe that possessing certain shells gave an individual spiritual power. In Hawaii it is the mana that is stored in a person's bones.   Mana , meaning, potent spiritual power, the metaphysical essence that creates a person's charisma and soul.   A Kahelelani shell is the protective covering of a very small snail classified as a mollusk, from the Greek word mollis , meaning "soft-bodied".   So in essence the Kahelelani shell is where the mana of this miniature creatures is stored.   If you look closely at the shell, it serves many purposes.   First it is a home, a very protected armor shell, shielding the soft creature from a hazardous ocean environment.   It is also a means of communication, self perpetuation, self expression, and deception.   The many striated, spotted, spiral, and variegated colors act as camouflage in a predatory marine environment.   The complex spiral dots, dashes and patterns that adorn the shells are a means of communication, a language of letters, a code of precise, thoughts and feelings.   Look closely at thousands and thousands of these shells and no two are exactly alike, is as if the patterns are a diagram of the critters DNA, spiraling inward to a central point around a three dimensional matrix of perfect geometry.   In picking and sorting countless shells your eye becomes attune to the spiraling curling patterns.   The designs mimic the curling waves when viewed from straight down.   The Hawaiians were aware of the shells multilayer meanings; for they were hyper aware of their environment and saw in the kahelelani shells a design that represented the spinning cosmos.   It is through science that we can literally see a galaxy, a fern tendril, a spinning double helix, or a spiraling pattern of a shell and see the similarities. Maybe the colors and patterns of the kahelelani are symbols of natural selection, similar to a parrot's bright plumage, genetic dominate traits passed through breeding.   The subtle cosmic symbology of the shells is profound.   It radiates in the subconscious for the designs are so small, they are rarely consciously inspected.