| Feature: | Shore area |
| Comments: | Shore area at Mokulau near Punahoa Spring. Described by Bishop Museum researcher Thomas Maunupau in his account of a visit to Kaupo in May 1922: "O Kapunahoa he wahi pana kaulana keia, he kohu wahi awapae no na waa, a o Kanemalohemo mai, aia wale no keia wahi i Mokulau." (Kapunahoa is a famous place, appearing to be suitable as a canoe landing, and next is Kanemalohemo. This place is at Mokulau.) Keakalauae (Popoiwi) heiau is incorrectly called Kanemalohemo in some historical accounts. In Thomas Thrum's 1917 "Hawaiian Annual", Thrum writes, "Investigations this day showed the former published list for Kaupo to be quite in error. The particulars given to Kanemalohemo, at Popoiwi, belonged to Loaloa. Popoiwi was said to be a heiau, not the location of Kanemalohemo. This latter was simply a sacred place at Mokulau, makai of the road, famed as the sport where a certain high priest of the Popoiwi temple stood and decried the overthrow of the kapu system and abandonment of the gods, which would result in the extinction of the order, and in his distress and despair he disrobed at this spot before all the people, hence the name, and foretold his own death, which occurred mysteriously the next day." |
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| Further reading: | Kanemalohemo (Ulukau.org) |