Haleleʻa

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.

Pukui, Mary Kawena, Samuel H. (Samuel Hoyt) Elbert, and Esther T. Mookini. Place Names of Hawaii. Rev. and enl. Ed. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1976. Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library.

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