Inoa | Name(s)
Waʻahila
Hiʻona ʻāina | Land characteristic: Kualapa
Hiʻona ʻāina o loko o kēia wahi | Feature(s) located within this place: Kalaepōhaku; Puʻu Kumauna; Puʻu Luahine
Hiʻona ʻāina nona kēia wahi | Feature(s) that contain this place: Mānoa
Hōʻuluʻulu manaʻo
He kualapa kēia e hoʻokaʻawale ʻana i ke ahupuaʻa o Mānoa a me Pālolo ma ka moku o Kona i ka mokupuni o Oʻahu. ʻO Waʻahila ka inoa o ka ua o kēia wahi, a me kekahi akua wahine i kaulana no kona hula maiau ʻana i ka hula ʻO Waʻahila. Aia ma ke kualapa he mau puʻu, ʻo Kumauna ka inoa o ke kanaka ʻino ma ka moʻolelo o ka wahine ʻo Kahalaopuna, a ua lilo o Kumauna i puʻu pōhaku ma ke kualapa o Waʻahila. Aia he mau kula kaulana loa ma kahi kokoke o Waʻahila, ʻo ia hoʻi ke kulanui o Hawaiʻi ma Mānoa a me ke kula ;o Saint Louis. No Waʻahila ka hālau na Kumu Hula Maelia Loebenstein Carter, ʻo ia ʻO Ka Pā Hula o Kauanoe o Waʻahila.
Description
Former land section, Mānoa; faculty housing, Mānoa campus, University of Hawaiʻi; ridge separating Mānoa and Pālolo valleys; State recreation area, 40 acres in area, St. Louis Heights; trail along Waʻahila ridge ending in upper Mānoa Valley, Honolulu. Also the name of a beneficent Mānoa rain, and of a chiefess who excelled in a dance named for her. (PH 170.) (Place Names of Hawaiʻi)
ʻŌlelo kuhikuhi
E koho iā “Waʻahila” no ke kualapa ma Mānoa.
Instructions
Use for the ridge in Mānoa, not to be confused with the deity or the rain of the same name.
Moʻokūʻauhau | Genealogy
Kanaka | Person: Maelia Lobenstein Carter; Kahalaopuna
Hana | Practice: Hula; Hoʻonaʻauao
Kūmole | Source(s)
“Kumauna,” Inoa ʻĀina Hawaiʻi Database, Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library.
“KalaepohakuInoa Ridge,” 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.
“Waahila Ridge,” Inoa ʻĀina Hawaiʻi Database, Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library.
Hoʻopili ʻia i | Applied to: Waʻahila Ridge :resources for restoration, Waʻahila
Mea haku | Created by: Na ka hui ʻimi naʻauao o Ka Wai Hāpai