Inoa | Name(s)
Kīpahulu
Hiʻona ʻāina | Land characteristic: Moku
Hiʻona ʻāina o loko o kēia wahi | Feature(s) located within this place: Alae Iki; Alae Nui; Kaʻāpahu; Kukuiʻula; Kukuiʻulaiki; Kīkoʻo; Puaʻaluʻu
Hiʻona ʻāina nona kēia wahi | Feature(s) that contain this place: Maui
Hōʻuluʻulu manaʻo
He moku kēia ma ka mokupuni o Maui, ma kahi hema iki o Hāna a ma ka ʻaoʻao aʻe, aia ka moku o Kaupō. Kaulana o Kīpahulu i ka makani, ʻo ia hoʻi “Ka makani kāʻili aloha o Kīpahulu.”
Description
Forest reserve, quadrangle, village, district, and valley, East Maui; home of Laka (UL 43), a god worshipped by canoe makers. Lit., fetch [from] exhausted gardens (kī is short for kiʻi). (Place Names of Hawaiʻi)
ʻŌlelo kuhikuhi
E koho iā “Kīpahulu” no ka moku o kēia inoa ma ka mokupuni o Maui.
Instructions
Use for the moku called Kīpahulu on Maui.
Moʻokūʻauhau | Genealogy
Akua | Deity: Lakaawahieloa; Kaiʻanuilālāwalu
Kanaka | Person: Kalokuokamaile
Hana | Practice: Lawaiʻa; Heʻe Nalu; Mahiʻai
Kūmole | Source(s)
“Kīpahulu,” 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, The Hāna Cultural Center & Museum, Kūkulu Hale in Hāna, east maui: reviving traditional Hawaiian house and Heiau building, ʻAiʻai, Building a hale
Mea haku | Created by: Na ka hui ʻimi naʻauao o Ka Wai Hāpai