Inoa | Name(s)

Waiau (ʻEwa)

Hiʻona ʻāina | Land characteristic: Ahupuaʻa

Hiʻona ʻāina o loko o kēia wahi | Feature(s) located within this place: Kumuʻulu; Naono; Kaluapalolo; Kaluaʻoʻopu; Kaʻakauwaihau; Honokawailani; Kauhihau; Waikowaha; Kapuna

Hiʻona ʻāina nona kēia wahi | Feature(s) that contain this place: ʻEwa

Hōʻuluʻulu manaʻo

He ahupuaʻa kēia i ka moku o ʻEwa. Ma ka ʻaoʻao hema o Waiau, aia ke ahupuaʻa o Waimalu a ma ka ʻaoʻao ʻākau, aia ʻo Waimano. Kapa ʻia kēia ahupuaʻa no ke kahawai o kēia inoa i hānai i ka loʻi kalo o ke ahupuaʻa o Waiau. Aia he mau kiʻowai kaulana ma kēia ahupuaʻa: ʻO Puhikani kekahi wai ʻauʻau punahele o ka ʻaumākua manō ʻo Kaʻahupāhau me kona ʻohana a ʻike ʻole ʻia kahi ponoʻī o kēia kiʻowai; ʻO Honokawailani kahi wai ʻauʻau punahele o nā kamaʻāina a aia ma kahi kokoke loa o ka hale uila. Wahi a ke kupuna o Sarah Keliʻilolena Nākoa, ma ʻaneʻi ka home o kekahi wahinehiʻuiʻa. ʻO Kūʻilioloa ka inoa o kekahi ʻīlio hoʻokalakupua paha no Waiau. Hānau paha ʻia ke aliʻi o Kūaliʻi ma Waiau. ʻO Ke Kula Kaiapuni ʻo Waiau ke kula kaiapuni mua ma Oʻahu hōʻola ʻana i ka ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi ma nā kula aupuni o Hawaiʻi.

Description

Ahupuaʻa in the ʻEwa moku of Oʻahu. Name from the Waiau spring, and translates as swirling water

ʻŌlelo kuhikuhi

E koho iā ʻWaiau (Oʻahu)” no nā kumuwaiwai pili i ke ahupuaʻa o Waiau ma ka moku o ʻEwa. Mai koho i kēia huaʻōlelo no nā kumuwaiwai pili i ke kahawai ma Kauaʻi me ka inoa like, a pēlā pū no ke kalana ʻāina a me ka loko wai ma ka mokukpuni o Hawaiʻi.

Instructions

Not to be confused with the stream on Kauaʻi or the land division and village on Hawaiʻi Island.

Moʻokūʻauhau | Genealogy

Akua | Deity: Kaʻahupāhau; Kūʻilioloa

Kanaka | Person: Sarah Keliʻilolena Nākoa; Kualiʻi

Hana | Practice: Mahiʻai

Kūmole | Source(s)

“Hālau Puʻuloa inventory binder,” University of Hawai’i System Repository.

Inoa ʻĀina Hawaiʻi Database, Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library.

Maly, Kepā, Onaona Maly, Thelma Genevieve Parish, Arline Wainaha Kuʻuleialoha Brede Eaton, Harry Alama, Mark Kahalekulu, Roxanne Marie Tagama, et al. He Moʻolelo ʻāina : Some Traditions and Storied Places of Honouliuli. ʻEwa Beach, HI: Hoakalei Cultural Foundation, 2016.

Nākoa, Sarah Keliʻilolena, Susan. Merritt, and Jacob Hauʻoli I. P. Elarco. Lei momi o Ewa. Third edition. Honolulu, Hawaii: Short Stack by Native Books, 2016.

Hoʻopili ʻia i | Applied to: Ke Kiʻowai ʻo Honokawailani; History of the ahupuaʻa regions around Puuloa

Mea haku | Created by: Na ka hui ʻimi naʻauao o Ka Wai Hāpai