Historical Collections of The Hawaiian Islands - Genealogies of Maui (Part 2) The US GenWeb Archives provide genealogical and historical data to the general public without fee or charge of any kind. It is intended that this material not be used in a commercial manner. All submissions become part of the permanent collection. Historical Collections of The Hawaiian Islands " Keepers of the Culture " A study in time of the Hawaiian Islands Genealogies of Maui and stories told by the ancients.-- Part 2 by Darlene E. Kelley November 2, 2000 http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006374 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Genealogies of Maui and stories told by the ancients.-- Part 2 As told by the ancients -- part 2. Kukona had not even bothered to attend, instead he sent his heir, Mano- Kalanipo, to represent him. In one brief battle, the armies of invasion suffered a complete and absolute defeat. A small and greatly outnumbered force of Kaua'i warriors had decisively beaten the combined armies of all of the other islands. The invading monarchs now stood in peril of their very lives for ancient custom decreed that they might be slaughtered and offered as sacrifice before the great Ku temples of Kaua'i. The Prince Kukona, however, decided otherwise and thereby set the pattern by which the acts in battle of the succeeding princes of Hawai'i were judged. Kukona spared the princes who had come to conquer him. Instead of death, he gave them presents, and to his men he gave provisions and supplies. He repaired their canoes and gave them more from his own fleets. He sent them back to their own realms over the seas in the regal state befitting a sovereign prince of Hawai'i. Chivalry and grace were embodied in Kukona, the king of Kaua'i, and he remained throughout the centuries of Hawai'i's history as the criterion whence all other acts of warfare are measured. Even Kamehameha violated all battle etiquette, yet we praise the results which he achieved putting an end to disordered social system. The Prince Kamalu-Ohua King of Maui, returned to his own kingdom after his defeat on Kaua'i. His cousin, Kalunui-Ohua, returned to Hawai'i. These two monarchs had wed sisters. The elder sister, Kaheke, became the Queen-Consort of Hawai'i, and the younger sister, Kapu-i-Kaheke, became the Queen- Concort of Maui, Kamalu-Ohua was succeeded by his eldest son, Loe-Ua-Kane, who wed a chieftess of Kaupo. Wao-Haapuna, and had Kahaoku-Ohua, who wed the Princess of Hawai'i, Hai-Kekaiula, and had the Warrior, Prince Kaulahea the Great, who invaded and conquered the Kingdom of O'ahu. Kaulahea the Great wed the High-chieftess Kapo-Hani-Au-puni of Hilo, and had Kakae, the King of Maui and O'ahu. Kakae wed his maternal aunt, the High Chieftess Kapo-Hauo-ia, and had Kahekili the Great who impoverished his kingdom and people by his many campaigns. Kahekili the Great wed the Princess of Kaua'i, Hau-Kanuihoniaia and had Kawaokanele whose name means, Our days of Poverty, to commemorate the impoverishment of his kingdom. Kawaokanele wed the High Chieftess Kapalaoa of O'ahu and of this union was born a son who was destined to become the most renouned of the monarchs of Maui, Pi'ilani the Great. No other monarch is so revered by the people of Maui as this Prince, and even in their poetic forms, the island of Maui is often addressed as Na-Hono-A-Pi'ilani. He was tthe 130th generation descended of Wakea, through the branch [Hana-La'aiki ] of the devine royal house of Hawai'i. He was the 20th independant monarch and sovereign of Maui. To all the world's great men, time and mankind will bestow some form of divinity. Thus it was with Pi'ilai of Maui. In order to certify the parentage of a royal child-- especially the first born, the nuptial rites of Hoao-Wohi demanded that the bride be secluded from all male company excepting her husband until her pregnancy was assured. As the ancents tell that during this hymeneal seclusion of the Princess Kapa-laoa of O'hahu, Queen Consort of Maui, a strange incident occurred. In the early evening, the peace of the nuptial bower was shattered by the screams of Kapalaoa. Since not any of the warrior guards was permitted -- except under pain of death-- to approach the Princess, only her ladies-in-waiting could rush to the aid of their queen. As they entered the darkened room, they beheld a fearsome sight. Resting upon the prostate princess was a huge dragon-like lizard. This form was one traditionally used by the dreaded God of Power and Destruction-- Ku--in his physical manifestations. Even as the women watched, the dragon slowly rose in the semi darkness and disappeared. They were struck blind for their sacrilege in daring to behold a divinity. When the Princess Kapa-laoa gave birtth to a child-- a son he was given the name of Pi'ilani, the Ascent to Heaven, to memorialize the visitation of the divine Ku. This tradition bequeathed to the royalty of Maui, their claim of divine descent and also the belief that their kingdom could never be conquered except by a descendant of Kane, God of Life and Creation. Kamehameha whose birth signified his descent from the Kane linage-- did take the Kingdom of Maui. The eldest son and heir of the great Pi'ilani of Maui was the Prince Kiha who suceeded to the sovereignty of that kingdom at the death of his father. He too had many wives and concubines, and it has long been known in Hawai'i that the true might and strength of the Maui warriors lay primarily in the fact that they were all very close relatives. The Prince Kiha of Maui first married under the nuptial rites of " Hoao-Wohi", the Princess Kumaka-Kui-Kalani by whom were born the might warrior King of Maui, Kamalala-walu, and his sister the Princess Pi'ilani-Wahine. All the latter monarchs of Maui as well as te Kamahameha and Lunalilo Dynasties descend from these two children. Kamalalawalu wed his own sister, the Princess Pi'ilani, and had a son, Kauhi-a-Kama, who took as his consort the sacred Niau-Pio Princess, Kapukinia-a-Liloa of Hawai'i. The Princess Kapukini was the daughter of the King of Hawai'i. Hakau, and his sister-consort, the Princess Kini-Laukapu. The Princess Kapukini-a-Liloa wed first her uncle of half blood, the King Umi-a Liloa of Hawai'i, and from them descended all the Kings and princes of that island. Kapukini then married the King of Maui, Kauhi-a-Kama, and from this second marriage descended all the kings and princes of Maui, O'ahu and Kaua'i. The sacred Kapukini --daughter of Hakau and grand-daughter of the immortal Liloa of hawai'i, was truly the Mother of Kings. It was by her that he Kings of the various island kingdoms traced the sanctty of their descent from Wakea, God of Light, and the original star-born monarchs of the Hawaiian race. The King of Maui, Kauhi-a-Kama, and his consort, the Queen-Consort of Hawai'i, Kapukini-a-Liloa, had two children, The Prince Kalani-Kau-Maka-o-Wakea and the Princess Kanea-Kauhi. These children wed each other and had three children of their own, the Prince Lono-Honua-Kini, the princess Pi'ilani ll, and the Princess Umi-a-Liloa.