Inoa | Name(s)
Hāna
Hiʻona ʻāina | Land characteristic: Moku
Hiʻona ʻāina o loko o kēia wahi | Feature(s) located within this place: Haneoʻo; Honokalani; Hāmoa; Honomāʻele; Kawaipapa; Kawela; Kākiʻo; Mokae; Mūʻolea; Puʻuhaoa; Wailua; Waiohonu; Wākiu
Hiʻona ʻāina nona kēia wahi | Feature(s) that contain this place: Maui
Hōʻuluʻulu manaʻo
He moku kēia ma ka mokupuni o Maui. ʻO Hāna ka ʻaoʻao hikina o ka mokupuni. Aia ma waena o ka moku o Koʻolau ma ka ʻaoʻao ʻākau a me Kīpahulu ma ka ʻaoʻao hema. Wahi a nā kūpuna no Hāna, “Hāna, mai Koʻolau a Kaupō,” no ka nui o kēia wahi. Kaulana pū ka ua o kēia wahi, ʻo ia hoʻi “Ka ua kea o Hāna” a me “Ka ua Lanihaʻahaʻa o Hāna.” Nui nā wahi kaulana o kēia wahi, e like me kēia ʻōlelo: “ʻO Wananalua ia ʻāina; ʻo Punahoa ka wai; ʻo Kaʻuiki ka puʻu.” Aia ka heiau nui o Maui ma Hāna, ʻo ia hoʻi ʻo Piʻilanihale.
Description
Quadrangle, village, bay, surfing area, elementary and high school, beach park, district, forest reserve, plantation, and road, East Maui. Queen Ka-ʻahu-manu was born here at a place called Pōnaha-ke-one (circle [of] the sand). Poetic: ʻāina ua, lani haʻahaʻa (PH 210), rainy land, low-lying sky. (Ii 172.) See Nā-nuʻa-lele. (Place Names of Hawaiʻi)
ʻŌlelo kuhikuhi
E koho iā “Hāna” no ka moku o kēia inoa ma ka mokupuni o Maui.
Instructions
Use for the moku called Hāna on Maui.
Moʻokūʻauhau | Genealogy
Akua | Deity: Pele; ʻAiʻai; Kuʻula, Kamapuaʻa
Kanaka | Person: Kaʻahumanu; Keʻeaumoku; Kaheiheimaile Hoapiliwahine; Kamalālāwalu
Hana | Practice: Mahiʻai; Lawaiʻa; Heʻe nalu
Kūmole | Source(s)
“Hāna,” 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.
Sterling, Elspeth P. Sites of Maui. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1998.
Hoʻopili ʻia i | Applied to: A song for Hāna & the spirit of Lehoʻula; Ku’ula-kai (book chapter); Kūkulu Hale in Hāna, east maui: reviving traditional Hawaiian house and Heiau building (book chapter); The Hāna Cultural Center & Museum (journal); ʻAiʻai; Building a hale (book chapter)
Mea haku | Created by: Na ka hui ʻimi naʻauao o Ka Wai Hāpa