Kawaokaohele

Kawaokaohele
King of Maui
Spouse Kepalaoa
Issue Piʻilani
Father King Kahekili I
Mother Haukanuimakamaka
Religion Hawaiian mythology

Kawaokaohele (Hawaiian for "our days of poverty") was a High Chief who ruled the island of Maui in ancient Hawaii.[1]

Biography

Family

Kawaokaohele was a son of King Kahekili I and Haukanuimakamaka, who was a High Chiefess and is also known as Hauanuihonialawahine.[2] She was born on Kauai, but married Kahekili on Maui.

He had a brother, Peʻapeʻa Makawalu I and was a grandson of King Kakae and his wife Kapohauola.[3]

Reign

Kawaokaohele succeeded his father as king of Maui. His reign was prosperous.[4]

No war occurred during Kawaokaohele was ruler of the island.[5]

His sister, beautiful Princess Keleanohoanaapiapi, was abducted and married into the noble family of Oahu.[6]

Marriage

Kawaokaohele had married Kepalaoa, whose pedigree is not remembered, but who was probably a Maui chiefess or an Oahu princess. She bore a famous son, King Piʻilani,[7] and Kawaokaohele was succeeded by him.[8]

Legend

In one ancient legend, Kawaokaohele is represented as the foster father of Piʻilani.

According to this old story, god Kū was the biological father of Piʻilani.

Family tree

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Kahekili I, King of Maui
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Kawaokaohele
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Hauanuihonialawahine, Chiefess of Kauai
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Piʻilani, King of Maui
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Kepalaoa
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Piʻikea, Chiefess of Maui and Hawaiʻi
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Kumalae, Chief of Hilo
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
ʻUmi-a-Liloa, King of Hawaiʻi
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Notes

  1. ↑ Tales and Traditions of the People of Old: Na Mo'Olelo a Ka Po'E Kahiko by Samuel Kamakau
  2. ↑ Family of Haukanimaka
  3. ↑ Hawaiian Genealogies: Extracted from Hawaiian Language Newspapers, volume 2 by Edith Kawelohea McKinzie
  4. ↑ How Chiefs Became Kings: Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in ancient Hawaii by Patrick Vinton Kirch
  5. ↑ Abraham Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origin and Migrations, Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1969.
  6. ↑ Pacific Passages: An Anthology of Surf Writing by Patrick J. Moser
  7. ↑ Moku'ula: Maui's sacred island by P. Christiaan Klieger
  8. ↑ The Stories of the Genealogies of Maui