A Royal Battle, A King Sacrificed: Ke'eku, Big Island Hawaii
On the grounds of the Keauhou Beach Hotel are the remains of a heiau that served as both a luakini heiau (place of human sacrifice) and pu'uhonua (place of refuge). Built by the Hawai'ian Ali'i Lonoikamakakahiki in the 16th century, Ke'eku Heiau is one of the most famous religious sites in the State of Hawai'i because of its veneration in folk tales involving the 16th century wars between the Hawai'i and the Maui. The Heiau has walls an impressive 6 to 11 feet thick, and measures 150 by 100 feet in area. There are two stone features on the heiau's raised stone platform said to represent the defeated Maui Ali'i' Kamalalawalu's black and white war dogs, Kapapako and Kauakahiok'oka.
Carved into the rock in the inter-tidal region in front of this heiau is an impressive set of ki'i pohaku (petroglyphs). Due to geological subsidence of the island over the past several hundred years, these petroglyphs are visible only at low tide, or by mask and snorkel. There is one large anthropomorphic petroglyph in particular that is said to represent the sacrificed Maui Ali'i, Kamalalawalu.
To reach Ke'eku Heiau, park either in the Kahalu'u Beach Park or at Keauhou Ohana Beach Resort. From Kahalu'u, walk onto the Keauhou Ohana Beach Resort property through the gateway in the fence between them and follow the asphalt path to the pool deck, through the lobby of the resort and join the paved path that runs along the end of the Resort driveway. From the Resort parking lot, walk up the drive to the paved path that runs along the end of the driveway. Following along this path, one passes Punawai Spring first, then, where the path runs around the end of the tennis courts the Mo'o Twins homesite. Continuing on the path until it ends at a broken concrete bridge among No Trespassing signs is Hapaial'i Heiau. To get to Ke'eku Heiau, one may take one's chances crossing the old concrete bridge, or one can walk on stones and wade across the tidepool at low tide (be very careful, the rocks are extremely slippery). Immediately at the south end of the bridge begin the walls and platforms of Ke'eku Heiau. Although in ruin and disarray, this Heiau is one of the most accessible and impressive temple sites in the immediate area. Remember that these are holy religious sites to modern native Hawai'ians; to not trespass, walk or climb on the temple proper; take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints.
Further Information: During 16th century, Lonoikamakakahiki, a Hawai'ian Ali'i, and Kamalalawalu, an Ali'i of the Maui, had numerous battles for possession of each other's island. It is said of the penultimate of these battles, when the Maui attacked the Hawai'i, the numbers of warriors was so vast that as the first of the Maui war canoes were landing on Hawai'i, the last of their canoes were just leaving Maui.
Lonoikamakakahiki had become enraged with Kamalalawalu during the course of this battle. The invading Maui had captured his leading general, gouged his eyes out and then had spears run through his eye sockets. Lonoikamakakahiki vowed a bloody revenge.
When Lonoikamakakahiki's army vanquished the Maui, he took Kamalalawalu over to the Ke'eku Heiau and sacrificed him alive to celebrate the great victory. The method of sacrifice was slow and graphic. Kamalalawalu was staked to the ground for several days, then taken to a nearby flat rock and butchered. The body was then towed to sea and fed to the sharks (some versions of the folktale have Kamalalawalu impaled on a pole for several days, before being butchered on the flat rock).
Hawai'ian folktales hold that Kamalalawalu brought with him into battle two large, fierce war dogs, a white one (Kapapako) and a black one (Kauakahiok'oka). The dogs are said to have lain down and died on the spot of Kamalalawalu's execution. Although buried beneath the heiau luakini platform, it is said that these dogs can still be seen roaming, and heard howling, in the night searching for their fallen master. Two stone features found on the makai side of the Ke'eku Heiau stone platform represent Kamalalawalu's two dogs.
Petroglyphs along the rocks, visible at low tide between Kahalu'u Beach Park and Keauhou O'hana Beach Resort, commemorate the sacrifice of Kamalalawalu by Lonoikamakakahiki. No Services.
For more information on visiting Hawaii in general and touring ancient temples on the Big Island in particular, visit tourguidehawii.com and lovingthebigisland.wordpress.com.
Filmed and Produced by Donald B. MacGowan.
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Places to see in ( Kailua-Kona - USA )
Places to see in ( Kailua-Kona - USA )
Kailua-Kona is a town on the west coast of Hawaii Island (the Big Island). Hulihee Palace is a former royal vacation home dating from 1838. Mokuaikaua Church, from the 1800s, is Hawaii’s oldest Christian church. On Kailua Bay, reconstructed thatched houses at Kamakahonu National Historic Landmark mark King Kamehameha I’s residence. Colorful coral lies off Kamakahonu Beach. Kailua Pier has boat moorings.
Kailua Kona, often referred to as Kona by the locals, is the main western city, population 34,000 (2012), of the Big Island of Hawaii. It is nestled on the western coast of the Hualalai Volcano. In ancient times, this area was considered the premier place to live due to the excellent weather and good water. Many kings made their homes here. It was the home of King Kamehameha I, who united the Hawaiian Islands. It was also here in Kailua-Kona that Kamehameha's son, King Liholiho, broke and officially abolished the ancient kapu system. Later, missionaries built churches and residences and planted coffee, turning the tiny fishing village into a small seaport. Now Kona has become known for sport fishing, snorkeling, sunsets and coffee, which is cultivated on the slopes of Mount Hualalai. Because the mountains block the northeasterly trade winds, Kona gets very little rain and enjoys more than 300 days of sunshine a year. Kona is also home to the Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament (August) and the Ironman Triathlon World Championship (October).
Traffic was pretty minor before, but in recent years has become more congested. Driving in tourist-oriented areas can be slow, but the town is generally not large enough to have serious problems. Walking is a manageable way to explore the town, but you should rent a car if you want to get to resorts, beaches and other cultural locations. Some free parking is available: When you enter Kailua via Palani Road (Hwy. 190), turn left onto Kuakini Highway, drive for about a block, and turn right into a parking lot marked with a green P sign. From there, go down some steps and walk makai (toward the ocean) on Likana Lane a half block to Ali`i Drive, and you'll be in the heart of Kailua-Kona.
Street addresses are confusing and consist of two parts. Hawaii Island is divided into nine zones, each of which are subdivided into nine sections. The first two digits of an address, before the hyphen, indicate the zone and its section. For example, Kailua-Kona is 75, Waikoloa 68, Captain Cook 81 and Hawi 55. The numbers following the hyphen are based on the distance from a predetermined starting point — usually a road intersection or a highway. The numbers run consecutively, with odd numbers on the left and even numbers on the right as you head away from the starting point. For example, addresses on Ali`i Drive increase as you head south, with even numbers on the ocean side of the Drive.
Kailua-Kona is a place for ocean and outdoor recreational activities. Surfing, fishing, diving, boating, snorkeling and swimming are all popular sports in Kailua-Kona, as are hiking, biking, caving, and four wheeling. In August, there is the Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament; in October, the Ironman Triathlon World Championship.
A lot to see in Kailua-Kona such as :
Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park
Hualālai
Mauna Kea Summit Adventures
Keauhou Bay
Magic Sands Beach Park
Hulihe‘e Palace
Old Kona Airport State Recreation Area
Kailua Bay
Island Breeze Luau - He 'Ohana Kakou
Kamakahonu National Historic Landmark
Mountain Thunder Coffee Plantation
Mokuaikaua Church
Ali'i Drive
Kamakahonu Beach
Honokohau Beach
Kona Farmers Market
The Pier
Honokohau Small Boat Harbor
Hula Daddy Kona Coffee LLC
Honl’s Beach
Sadie Seymour Botanical Gardens and the Kona Educational Center
Kailua Pier
Pine Trees Surfing Beach
Hale Halawai Park
Kona Cloud Forest Guided Walking Tours
Keahole Point
Kaloko Fishpond
Kona Outdoor Circle
St. Michael The Archangel Church
Honuaʻula Forest Reserve
Kona Oceanfront Gallery
Kona Hawaii Temple
‘Alula Beach
Kona Dog Beach
( Kailua-Kona - USA ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Kailua-Kona . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Kailua-Kona - USA
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Thank you Pamela! We had a wonderful time on the tour of fissure 8 and 24! It was awesome to see a new volcano forming and very educational for the kids! I can't wait to go back to the Big Island!
NIght Runner Sport Fishing
Tex Drive In (Big Island, Hawaii)
Hilo Farmers Market
Hilton Waikoloa Village
Akaka Falls State Park
Pololu Valley Lookout
Kualoa Ranch & Private Nature Reserve
Dole Plantation
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DHHL Kahikinui October 2019 Update
Napua explains DHHL Kuleana Homesteads.
The primary reason given by the Department of Hawaiian Homelands Commission as to why Hawaiian Homelands beneficiaries are not on the land, is communicated as, “a lack of funds to build infrastructure”. While thousands of Hawaiians were waiting for land in the nineties, a Maui group of Native Hawaiians were successful in convincing the DHHL to allow beneficiaries to homestead at Kahikinui without infrastructure. 23,000 acres of land that made up the moku of Kahikinui transferred from the State Department of Land and Natural Resources to become part of the Department of Hawaiian Homelands trust. Typically the DHHL requires infrastructure before allowing settlements. Ka Ohana o Kahikinui (KOOK) was a non profit organization formed in 1995 by beneficiary wait listers who asserted themselves as willing and able to resettle Kahikinui on kuleana homestead lease terms, issued as raw land. The group demanded the DHHL deny renewal of the pasture lease to Maui Factors which expired in 1990. KOOK worked with the DHHL and the resettlement of Kahikinui was the first example of kuleana leases in which those who settled would be responsible for building the community. Their efforts were widely hailed as a huge victory for Hawaiian land struggles and for the possibility that the land of Kahikinui would be cared for and used to directly benefit native Hawaiians. The 75 Kahikinui lots were issued as 99 year leases in 1999. The initial members of KOOK were determined and resilient individuals who helped expedite awards for waitlisters and braved the duties of land management of an entire region of Haleakala’s leeward slope. Together, this group of initial resettlers configured the means for managing both the social and political responsibilities of creating and caring for a community.
With their reverence for the land, Kahikinui settlers were keenly aware that the quality of their own lives depends on the health of the mauka forest and developed a forest protection plan. To ensure that the “protection and conservation goals established for the forest reserve may never be compromised,” the plan called for a non-profit organization of citizens and homesteaders “independent from other community development entities” therefore Living Indigenous Forest Ecosystems, Inc. (LIFE) was created and assumed that organization role. In 1996, the DHHL licensed the conceptual forest plan and gave LIFE control of 7,500 acres of the Kahikinui Forest Reserve.
The DHHL was able to approve KIA LLCs Right of Entry for the Kahikinui Forest with beneficiary consultation provided by the homestead association Ka Ohana o Kahikinui (KOOK), instead of LIFE and KGLMO, the forest stewardship organizations of the area. This directly conflicts with the purpose of the Kahikinui Forest Reserve Community Management Conceptual Plan (KFPWG 1995) which was to “ensure that the protection and conservation goals established for the forest reserve may never be compromised,” by creating an organization “independent from other community development entities”, which is why Living Indigenous Forest Ecosystems, Inc. (LIFE) was created, “to ensure the protection and conservation goals established for the forest reserve may never be compromised.” When KOOK is presumed with jurisdiction of the forest, the protections and conservation goals are directly compromised.
Over the last twelve years, the Kahikinui homestead association KOOK has been making illegal changes to the following articles of the organization's by-laws; Article 2.30 regarding quorum, Article 4.15 regarding qualifications for regular membership and Article 5.50 regarding amendments of by-laws. With these changes, KOOK decreased the amount of directors that constitute a quorum, KOOK decreased the amount of members needed to amend by-laws and restricted qualification for membership to only those who reside in Kahikinui on a full time basis. In summary, the board and membership of this organization gradually began to exclude perspective and consultation of those Kahikinui kuleana leaseholders who did not reside in Kahikinui on a full time basis, and restricted decision making solely to board members and those Kahikinui leaseholders living in Kahikinui on a full time basis.
This provides the DHHL with convenience and ease in granting commercial leases in Kahikinui, having only need to convince 30% of the areas leaseholders in order to approve projects such as KIA LLC’s animal eradication wild meat to market platform and American Electric’s proposal for another fifteen windmills in Kahikinui. 70% of the leaseholders of Kahikinui have been intentionally left in the dark as Ka Ohana o Kahikinui misrepresents itself as the sole facet for beneficiary consultation in Kahikinui.
KIA LLCs sustainable food venture The Kahikinui Project, can be considered modernization of the food system which has always meant displacement from ancestral lands and foodways.
Off the Beaten Path with Maui Country Farm Tours
Maui Country Farm Tours Specializes in unique intimate experiences with a touring van that seats 7 and guides that give you the local and historical background of Maui. The other day @JillzBeanz and @LifeinParadise had the opportunity take go on an adventure with Maui Country Farm Tours off the beaten path and had such a good time we knew we had to share about it with you.
Hawaiian Sunset 1
Video and pictures I shot of a Hawaii sunset at Waikiki set to music. Music credit is to Keali'i Reichel, song is Lei Hali'a.
9-year-old fire dancer at the Polynesian Cultural Centre, Hawaii
Part of the cultural performances during the Ali'i Luau buffet dinner at the Polynesian Cultural Centre on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. This kid is only 9-years old and a great example of keeping traditional Polynesian fire dancing alive. 456grtyh567hertyh7i;
ハワイ島 カイルアコナの半日観光ツアー KONAセレクト
ハワイ島はビッグアイランドの愛称を持つ島大きな島のためほとんどのツアーが長時間になってしまいます。 またホテルには大きなプールやゴルフ場などホテル滞在も満喫したいのに！と思っている方もいるはず。 そこで、午前・午後の１日２回のご案内で組み合わせも自由に、半日で観光をしてお買い物も出来ちゃうツアーを作りました～♪
今回は第二弾となり、コナの新しいスポット『KONAバニラ農園』と人気の『アワビの養殖場』へ立ち寄ります。
そして、外すことの出来ないコナの老舗クッキー屋さんはほろほろのツアーで行くとお得な割引有り！ そしてカメハメハ大王が余生を過ごしたコナの街の散策もお土産用に進呈する「ほろほろオリジナルマップ」があれば分かりやすくまわれること間違いなしです。
０歳の赤ちゃんからご参加可能なのでご家族での思い出作りにもピッタリ。
Kona Makai Vacation Rental.mpg
Nicely Remodeled, very nice owners, fully turnkey, ground floor with ocean view, covered parking available inside nightly gated complex.
Great access, Off of Ali'i Drive (little traffic noise) yet convenient access to Shopping, Surf, Expeditions!
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Have You explored Miloli'i? There is a county park with amenities, a remote black sand beach (Honomalino),
boating access, snorkeling, perhaps the oldest fishing village in the State, all very interesting and little commercial interests!
This Condominium is a great place to return to after a Miloli'i adventure
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Airiel and Daniel Hilo Bay Kava Bar
Hilo Hawaii
Aloha ! Kalapana black Sand beach Kehena beach 2017 D Gacilos
Talking with the Homeless in Honolulu (9 of 10)
Over a three day period I recorded conversations with homeless people in the tourist area near Waikiki in Honolulu. While the extent to which the homeless were connected to reality varied, each was told that the conversation was being recorded for the purpose of teaching others about life on the streets in Honolulu. Each homeless person was free to say whatever he or she wished without any contradiction or advice-giving from me.
Preston Jones teaches at John Brown University.
Superferry Sinks As Kaua`i Speaks
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Sea Village 3216
Beautiful oceanfront vacation rental in Kailua Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Sea Village is an inviting ocean front condo complex. The complex is surrounded by beautifully kept grounds, which include picnic tables and 4 gas BBQ's.
The pool and jacuzzi sit behind a sea wall just feet from the ocean. There is also a Foot Path to the ocean, with access for swimming off the rocks.
The tennis court is conveniently located and well maintained.
Kava Bar Hilo
Hanging out with Dave and the gang!
Hawaii black sand beach
Hanging out on the Big Island on a gorgeous black sand beach. I love this place- the only drawback is how long it takes to get there. Here is an article I wrote on how to eat healthy and stay in shape while travelling:
ハワイ島 ブルーハワイ・ヘリコプターからの眺め
ハワイ島にてブルーハワイ・ヘリコプターに搭乗し、キラウエア火山、ワイピオ渓谷を空撮しました。
2011年8月29日撮影