| Feature: | Undefined place |
| Comments: | Place above Hale o Kane heiau at the base of a cliff. Described by Bishop Museum researcher Thomas Maunupau in portions of an account of a visit to Kaupo published in Ka Nupepa Kuokoa on June 1 and June 8, 1922: "Pau ka nana ana i keia heiau hele hou mai makou iuka iki, mai, a he heiau okoa no ia. Aole nae keia he heiau nui, he uuku iki mai ia. Maanei olelo mai o Joseph Marciel, e hele makou iuka mai i kahi o kekahi o na kupa a kamaaina o Kaupo, ma ka inoa o Simeona Maihui. … O kahi noho o keia elemakule, aia i ke kumu o na pali i kapaia 'Na Pili o Kane'." (When we were through looking at this heiau [Lonoaea] we went a little further up to another heiau [Hale o Kane]. This heiau was not large. Here, Joseph Marciel said that we should go up and see one of the natives of Kaupo by the name of Simeona Maihui. … The place where this old man lived was at the base of the cliffs called 'Na Pili o Kane'.) Maunupau mentions Na Pili o Kane again in a section of his account published on Aug. 3, 1922. He describes the legend of how the gods Kane and Kanaloa created both Waiu Spring and Kaupo Gap, and afterward: "I ka nahaha liilii ana o keia pali paapu, a lilo i pali awawa ua pili aku la keia mau akua i ke kumu pali, he hookahi akua i ke kumupali hookahi, a kali mai laua i ke kanaka e alualu ana ia laua. ... O ka pili ana o keia mau akua i ke kumu pali ma kela ame keia aoao o ke awawa pali, ua kapaia ia mau wahi, ' Na Pili o Kane' ahiki no i keia la." (When this solid cliff had been broken into little pieces and the Gap made, these gods clung against the cliff base, one god on each side of the base, and waited for the person following them. ... These places where the gods clung against the cliff base on either side of the Gap are called 'Na Pili o Kane' to this day.) Referred to as "Piliokane" in an article about a death from a cliff fall in 1912. |
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