Historical Collections of The Hawaiian Islands - As told by the Ancient Hawaiians (Part 4) 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 by Darlene E. Kelley October 12, 2000 http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006374 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Part 4 -- As told by the Ancient Hawaiians. Hawai'i Loa's Descendants; Kunuiakea's son Ke Lii Alia, and his grandson Kemilia, were born at Tahiti along with Aoa, the royal tree; but his great grandson, Ke Lii Ku [ Eleeleualani ], was born on Hawai'i. Eleeleualani was the grandfather of Papa-Nui-Hanau-Moku. His wife was called Ka Oupe Ali'i and was a daughter of Kupukupunuu from Ololoimehani [ supposed to be either a name for the island of Nu'uhiwa, or a place on that island ]. They had a son called Kukalani'ehu, whose wife was Ka Haka-ua-Koko, the sixth descendant from Makali'i, and they two were parents of Papa-Nui. Papa-Nui-Hanau-Moku first married Wakea, who was the son of Kahiko and Tupu-rani-i-te-hau, who was a Tahitian woman. Papa's first child with Wakea was a daughter called Hoohokukalani. Papa, having quarreled with Wakea on account of their daughter, went to Tahiti and there she took to Te Rii Fanau for husband and had a son called Te Rii i te Haupoipoi. She afterwards returned to Hawai'i under the name of Huhune and had a son with Waia and called him Hinanalo. Domestic troubles now made her crazy and she returned to Tahiti where she had another son with Te Ari'i Aumai, who was said to be the fourth generation of the Tahiti chiefs, and she called his name Te Ari'i Taria, and he became chief over that part of Tahiti called Taharu'u. Because she was the mother of Chiefs, both in Hawai'i and in Tahiti, she is called Papa Nui Hanau Moka [ " Great Papa, the Mother of Islands" ]. She is said to have been a comely, handsome woman, very fair and almost white. Papa and Wakea are considered by many as the first female and male ancestors of the Hawaiian people. " Wakea, from whom all Hawaiian genealogies stem as the ancestors of the Hawaiian people, both chiefs and commoners,' is regarded as a man in Hawaiian tradition, not as a god as in southern groups [ of Polynesia]." Papa is said to have traveled eight times between Tahiti and Hawai'i, and died in a place called Waieri, in Tahiti, during the time of Nanakelihi the fifth descendant from her and Wakea. Wakea was a wicked and bad man. He instituted the bad and oppressive kapu, such as that men and women could not eat together; that women could not eat red fish, hogs, fowl or other birds, and some kinds of bananas. These Kapu were put onto spite and worry Papa, on account of her growling at and repoaching him for his wickedness. Wakea also departed from the ancient worship and introduced idol worship, and many people followed him, because they were afraid of him. Other Travels of Hawai'i Loa --- Hawai'i Loa was born on the eastern shore of the Island of Kapakapaua-a-Kane. One of Hawai'i Loa's grandchildren was called Keaka-i-Lalo, whom he married to Te Ari'i Aria, one of hs brother Ki's grandchildren, and he placed them at Sawai'i [ Samoa ?], where they became the ancestors of that people, Sawai'i being then called Hawai'i-ku-lalo [ Hawai'i raising downwind]. Afterwards Hawai'i Loa revisited Tahiti and found that his brother Ki had forsaken the religion in which they were brought up, that of Kane, Ku, and Lono, and adopted Ku-waha-ilo [ maggot-mouth Ku]. the man eating God [ ke akua 'ai kanaka], as his God. After quarreling with his brother on this account, Hawai'ui Loa left Tahiti and brought with him Te Ari'i Apa as a husband for Eleeleualani,his grandchild. From these two was born Kohala, a girl, from whom the Kohala people sprang. Afterwards Hawai'i Loa went again to Tahiti and Hawaii-ku-lalo [ Sawai'i ] and held a meeting with those peoples at Tarawao . but finding that they persisted in following after the God Ku-waha-ilo and they had become addicted to man-eating, he reproved and repudiated them, and passed a law called ' he Papa Enaena," forbidding anyone from Hawai'i Luna [ upward Hawai'i ] from ever going to the southern Islands, lest they should go astray in their religion and become man-eaters. When Hawai'i Loa returned from his trip he brought with him Te-Ari'i Tino Rua to be a wife to Kunuiakea, and they begot Ke Ali'i Maewa Lani, a son, who was born at Holio in North Kona, Hawai'i, and became the Kona progenitor. After this Hawai'i Loa made a voyage westward, and Mulehu [ Hoku Loa ] was his guiding star. He landed on the eastern shore of the land of the Lahui-makalilio [ the people with the turned up, oblique eyes, i.e., Asians ]. He traveled over it to the northward and to the westward to the land of Kuahewahewa-a-Kane, one of the continents that God created, and then he returned, by the way he had come, to Hawai'i nei, bringing with him some white men [ po'e keokeo kane ] and married them to native women [ a h o'omoe i ko'onei po'e wahine ]. on this return voyage the star lao was his guiding star to Hawai'i. After this Hawai'i Loa made another voyage to the southern and eastern shore of Kapakapaua-a-Kane and took with him his grandchild Kunuiakea in order to teach hm navigation. When they had stayed there long enough they returned and Kunuiakea brought with him " he mau ha'a elua " [ two stewards ]. one called Lehua and the other Nihoa, and they were settled on the two islands which bear their names, as konohiki [ land stewards ] and put in charge of Kaua'i, the youngest son of Hawai'i Loa. When Hawai'i Loa returned from the conference with his brother Ki and his descendants, his wife Hualalai bore him a son who was called Hamakua, and who probably was a bad boy [ keiki 'ino'ino]. for so his name would indicate. Ten years later, Hualalai died and was buried on the mountain of Hawai'i that has been called after her name ever since. After Hawai'i Loa was dead and gone, in the time of Kunuiakea, came Tahitinui from Tahiti and landed at Ka-lae-i-Kahiki [ the southwest point of Kaho'olawe, a cape often made by people coming from or going to Tahiti was worn]. Tahiti-nui was a mo'opuna of Ki, Hawai'i Loa's brother, and he settled on East Maui and died there. The descendants of Hawai'i Loa and also of Ki [ which are one, for they were brothers] peopled nearly all the Polynesian islands. From Ki came the people of Tahiti, Borabora, Huahine, Taha'a Ra'iatea and Mo'orea [ the Society Islands ]. From Kanaloa [ brother of Hawai'i Loa] were peopled Nukuhiwa, Uapou, Tahuata, Hiwaoa and those other islands [ the Marquesas Islands ]. Kanaloa married a women from the man-eating people, Taeohae [ Taiohae, on Nukuhiwa]. from whom sprang those cannibals who lived on Nukuhiwa, Fiji, Tarapara, Paumotu, and the islands in western PolynesiaNso as it was reported in the Hawaiian legends and Prayers. But the people of Hawai'i and the Tahiti [ properly speaking ] did never addict themselves to cannibalism.