Kalahumoku
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Kalahumoku II was a Hawaiian High Chief and maternal grandfather of Kalokuokamaile, the progneitor of the Kalokuokamaile Dynasty.
He was the reigning high chief of all of Hāna including the districts of Kipahulu and Kaupo, whose chiefs previously deceased, on the island of Maui. He was not the status was not that of an Ali'i Aimoku, which was held by the Moi of Maui or the Alii Aimoku of Hawaii depending on who had a hold on Hana at the time since Hana was a disputed territory between the two powers. Either one of these had suzerainity over him, he act more like a governor king. Kalahumoku was lineal descendant of Loe, the great progneitor of the Maui chiefdom, and also of the Piilanis, Kamalalawalu and others, and of the Chiefs of Hāna. The youngest daughter of Lono-Honua-Kini, King of Maui, was the Princess Kuhala. She was the great-grandmother of the High-Chief Kalahuimoku II.[1]
His family possessed a wonderful kapu entirely different from, and never known to exist among, any other chief families of the Hawaiian Islands. It was styled "Ka Poo hoolewa i ka La," and inherited from Kaakaualaninui, the grandmother of Kalahumoku. It signified the laying of the head toward the sun's position in the heavens from its rising unto it's setting. Days for the observance of this kapu were strictly kept. The only time for recreation during the kapu must be taken from between the setting of luminary and the dawn of a new day.
He wed Kalani Kalani Kaumehameha and had two beautiful daughters Kahikikala, the elder, and Kalanilehua, the younger. Their beauty and sacredness was spread across the waters of the ʻAlenuihāhā Channel to the Island of Hawaii where Keoua Kalanikupuapaikalaninui resided in the court of his father Keeaumoku-nui. Keoua asked his father to allow him to visit the court of Hāna to take one of them for great was his ambition to obtain the wonderful kapu that Kalahumoku owned, so as to hand it down to his descendants.[2]
[edit] Reference
- ^ The Stories & Genealogies of Maui," http://www.mauiculture.net/mookuauhau/index.html, Accessed 9 Oct 2004.
- ^ ^ Pratt, Elizabeth K. (March 27, 2000). Keoua : Father of Kings . Ke Ali'i Pub.Page 9-12
