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...He welina aloha i na kupa o ka aina e noho ana mai Hawaii Moku O Keawe, kahi e ike mua ia ai ka wehena kaiao, a i Niihau O Kahelelani, kahi e aui ai ka la i lalo o ka mole o Lehua. Ano, ke hoouna ia aku nei keia ohina moolelo o Lehua Ahihi i ka loa me ka laula o ko kakou pa...

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...I ka poe heluhelu o ka Hoku Hawaii, eia makou ke hoopuka aku nei I keia wahi Moolelo Hoonanea, no ka pomaikai o ko ka Hoku poe heluhelu. He wahi moolelo kahiko keia no kela au kahiko o ka aina. A ua hoopuka aku makou i keia no keia mau pule e nee nei, m...

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...O keia moolelo o Aukelenuia iku, o ia kekahi o na moolelo kaulana loa ma Hawaii nei. O Kuaihelani ka aina. O Iku ke kane, he alii. O Kapapaiakea ka wahine. Na laua na keiki he umikumamalua. E hoomaka ana ka olelo ma Kuaihelani. Eia na inoa o na keiki: Kekamakahinuiaiku, Kuaiku, Nohoaiku, Heleaiku,...

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...The internationally known Aha Punana Leo, Inc. is a non-profit organization which was established in 1983 to revitalize the nearly extinct Hawaiian language and establish schools taught entirely through that language. The following year, the organization founded the first Punana Leo school which was also the first Native American language immersion school in the...

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...O Wakea, o ia hoi ka makuakane o na mokupuni o Hawaii nei, o ia ke kane. O Hoohokukalani ka wahine. Hapai o Hoohokukalani a nui aela kona opu. O kana pepe mua ana keia, o ia hoi kana hiapo. Hanau o Hoohokukalani. He pepe eepa kana; he keiki alualu. Olelo ia o i...

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...When Polynesian people came to Hawaii, hundreds of years ago, they brought legends. We know this because the same stories and similar hero names are found in other Polynesian groups. Other legends grew about historical events in our islands, about real p...

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...Preface.Vii -- Acknowledgments.Viii -- PikoiRat Shooting.3 -- Enemies Of The Chief.7 -- Pikoi Sees Hawaii.19 -- PeleHow Hawaii Was Made Safe.29 -- How Hawaii Was Divided.42 -- Holua Sledding.45 -- The Puna Chief Who Boasted.49 -- The Girl Who Gave Breadfruit.51 -- Kalapana.56 -- The Pounded Water Of Kekela.61 -- Other Lege...

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...In this second series of the Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Folk-lore, with the exception of a few transpositions, as mentioned in the preceding volume, the order of the author has been observed in the main by grouping together, first, the more important legends and tradition...

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...Wins—He Hides His Fish in the King's Canoe—They Plan Another Race to Take Place in Kau, Life to be the Forfeit -- 124 -- Kuapakaa Chants the Winds of Hawaii—The King, Angered, Continues on—Winds of Kauai, Niihau and Kaula; Of Maui, Molokai, Halawa—Chants the Names of His Master, Uncle and Men—Pakaa Orders the Winds of Laamaomao Released -- 92 -- The Canoe Race in Kau—Kuapa...

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...According to this tradition Hawaii just rose up from the ocean, together with the group of islands of Tahiti, and it would seem the Tahitian Islands were the first group in this Pacific Ocean, and Hawaii was of a later appearance, as shown by the li...

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...-- Birth of the Islands -- 6 -- Genealogy of Opuukanonua -- 24 -- About Wakea -- 12 -- First Sight of Foreigners -- 28 -- Genealogy of the Islands of Hawaii -- 16 -- -- Aukelenuiaiku and His Unkind Brethren -- 32 -- How Aukele and Namakaokahai Showed Their Useful Things -- 68 -- How Aukele Fell into the Pit of Kamooinanen and Profiled Thereby -- 38 -- How the Brothers-in...

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...The Hale Kuamoo–Hawaiian Language Center supports and encourages expansion of Hawaiian language as the medium of education, business, government, and other contexts of social life in Hawaii. The Center provides professional and material reso...

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...He Alii nui o Lonoikamakahiki no ka mokupuni o Hawaii ma hope iho o ko Keawenuiaumi make ana; he kanaonokumamaha hanauna maia Wakea mai. O Keawenuiaumi kona makua kane, a o Kaihalawai kona makuahine; ma Napoopoo kona wahi i hanau ai, a ma laila no o ia i hanai ia ai a nui...

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...; Ka Lanakila ana o Lonoikamakahiki. 55 -- Ka Holo ana o Lonoikamakahiki i Maui e Ike me Kamalalawalu. 58 -- Ka Hoi ana o Kauhipaewa a me Kihapaewa i Hawaii; Ka Holo ana o Kamalalawalu i Hawaii. 63 -- Ka Hoouka Kaua ana ma Waimea; Ka Lanakila ana o Lonoikamakahiki; Auhee o Kamalalawalu me Kona Make ana. . 68 -- Ka Hooponopono Hou ana o Lonoikamakahiki i ke Aupuni; Kona Hol...

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...The internationally known ?Aha Punana Leo, Inc. is a non-profit organization which was established in 1983 to revitalize the nearly extinct Hawaiian language and establish schools taught entirely through that language. The following year, the organization founded the first Punana Leo school which was also the first Native American language immersion school in the...

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...He wahine malihini o Pele i holo kona manao e holo mai i Hawaii nei. Aole i maikai kona noho ana me kona kaikuaana, me Namakaokahai a ua makemake o ia e holo mai i kekahi aina okoa....

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...Why after thirty years, should Beckwith’s Hawaiian Mythology be reprinted? Why, for the last twenty-five years, have scholars and amateurs alike sought for either new or used copies of this book which has become a rarity? To begin with, it was the first, and is still...

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...This guide to the native mythology of Hawaii has grown out of a childhood and youth spent within sound of the hula drum at the foot of the domelike House of the Sun on the windy island of Maui. There, wandering along its rocky coast and sandy beaches, exploring i...

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...76 -- . Papa and Wakea. 293 -- Genealogies. 307 -- Era of Overturning . 314 -- Mu and Menehune People. 321 -- Runners, Man-Eaters, Dog-Men. 337 -- Hawaiian Mythology - The Moikeha-La?a Migration. 352 -- Hawaiiloa and Paao Migrations. 363 -- Ruling Chiefs. 376 -- Usurping Chiefs. 387 -- Kupua Stories. 403 -- Trickster Stories. 430 -- Voyage to the Land of the Gods. 448 -...

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...This third series of the Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Folklore, in its varied character, presents valuable features for antiquarian and ethnic students of Polynesia in general and Hawaii in particular. The papers included in Part I, mostly the result of S. N. Haleole...

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... -- Concerning Ancient Religious Ceremonies -- 2 -- Various Heathen Prayers -- 46 -- Concerning the Construction of the Heiau -- 52 -- History of the Hawaiian Priesthood Called the Order of Sorcery -- 56 -- History of the Hawaiian Priesthood in Olden Time Called Hoomanamana -- 66 -- Explanatory Remarks—History of the Sorcery Priesthood—Divisions and Ordinances—Sacrifice Se...