Inoa | Name(s)
Haleleʻa
Hiʻona ʻāina | Land characteristic: Moku
Hiʻona ʻāina o loko o kēia wahi | Feature(s) located within this place: Hanalei; Hāʻena; Kalihi Kai; Kalihi Wai; Lumahaʻi; Waikoko; Wainiha; Waipā; Waiʻoli
Hiʻona ʻāina nona kēia wahi | Feature(s) that contain this place: Kauaʻi
Hōʻuluʻulu manaʻo
He moku kēia ma ka mokupuni Kauaʻi. Aia ʻo Haleleʻa ma ka ʻaoʻao ʻākau o Kauaʻi, me ka moku o Nāpali ma ka ʻaoʻao komohana a me ka moku o Koʻolau ma ka ʻaoʻao Hikina. ʻO ke Kaiāulu ka makani o kēia wahi a ʻo ka Makakoʻi ka ua, e like me ka ʻōlelo noʻeau, “Ka ua Makakoʻi o Haleleʻa.” Kaulana ʻo Haleleʻa no ka nui o ka ua, e like me ka ʻōlelo noʻeau, “Luʻuluʻu Hanalei i ka ua nui.” Ma Hāʻena, ʻo ia kahi i hele mai ai ʻo Hiʻiakaikapoliopele e kiʻi iā Lohiʻau no kona kaikuaʻana ʻO Pele. Ma laila ʻo ia i hōʻola ai iā ia. Ma ka pali o Makana, ma Haleleʻa, kahi i ʻō ahi ai nā kānaka o kēlā wahi, e like me ka ʻōlelo noʻeau, “Ka pali ʻō ahi o Makana.”
Description
Land division and forest reserve, Hanalei district, Kauaʻi. Street, Mānoa, Honolulu. Lit., joyful house. (Place Names of Hawaii)
ʻŌlelo kuhikuhi
E koho iā “Haleleʻa” no nā kumuwaiwai pili i ka moku ma ka mokupuni o Kauaʻi.
Instructions
Use for the moku on the island of Kauaʻi.
Moʻokūʻauhau | Genealogy
Akua | Deity: Lohiʻau; Hiʻiakaikapoliopele; Pele
Hana | Practice: Hana ʻōahi; Holo waʻa
Kūmole | Source(s)
“Haleleʻa,” Inoa ʻĀina Hawaiʻi Database, Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library.
Pukui, Mary Kawena. ’Olelo No’eau : Hawaiian Proverbs & Poetical Sayings. Honolulu, Hawai’i: Bishop Museum Press, 1983.
Wichman, Frederick B. Kauaʻi : Ancient Place-Names and Their Stories. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 1998.
Hoʻopili ʻia i | Applied to: “Hana ka lima, ʻai ka waha” : a collection of historical accounts and oral history interviews with kamaʻāina residents and fisher-people of lands in the Haleleʻa-Nāpali region on the Island of Kauaʻi, Control hierarchies in the traditional irrigation economy of Halelea District, Kauai
Mea haku | Created by: Na ka hui ʻimi naʻauao o Ka Wai Hāpai