Kumulipo
The number of wā in the Kumulipo.
What is 16?
The meaning of Kinolau.
What are the many forms taken by a supernatural body?
The definition of an ‘Aumakua.
What is a family or personal gods, or deified ancestors who might assume the shape of an animal or plant?
Paʻao brought with him these five traditions and items.
What is the luakini Heiau, human sacrifice, pahu, red feathers as a sign of high rank, and classical Polynesian Social Hierarchy?
The meaning of Ka Pae ʻĀina o Hawaiʻi.
What is the archipelago of the Hawaiian Islands?
The number of wā in the era of Pō.
What is 8?
The main four akua.
Who are Kāne, Kanaloa, Kū, and Lono?
The name of the second method to create an ‘aumākua.
What is kakuʻai?
The islands that made up the Northern Kingdom of Old Hawaiʻi.
What is Niʻihau, Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, and Molokaʻi?
To Native Hawaiians, the land was these three things.
What is Akua, Ancestor, and Provider?
In the Kumulipo, man was born in this wā.
What is the 16th Wā?
The name of Kāne’s hidden, floating island.
What is Kānehūnāmoku?
The traditional forms that an ʻaumākua can take on.
What is ʻAlalā (Crow), Manō (Shark), Pueo (Owl), Heʻe (Octopus), Moʻo (Lizard), Puhi (Eel), ʻIole liʻiliʻi (Fieldmice), Peʻelua (Caterpillar), Mea kanu (Plant), and Pōhaku (Rock)?
The chief who divided the land into the ahupua’a system and hānai the 1st born of Makaʻāinana as his own keiki.
Who is Maʻilikūkahi?
The name for a sliver of land in the ahupua‘a.
What is ‘Ili?
In the first wā, these were the earliest beings to emerge.
What are the coral and reef-dwelling life, seaweeds and tiny marine organisms, worms and other small invertebrates, and various marine organisms (including types of fish or proto-fish ancestors)?
The name of the priesthood of Kū.
What is Kanalu?
The name of the owl from Maui who brings souls back to life who are wandering on the plains.
Who is Pueonuiakea?
The name of the aliʻi who was raised up as a Makaʻāinana.
Who is ʻUmialīloa?
This plant made the strongest cordage for fish lines, fish nets, and a network for feather cloaks.
What is Olonā?
The name of the first human ancestor mentioned in the Kumulipo.
Who is Laʻilaʻi?
The patron akua (god) of Kamehameha I.
Who is Kūkaʻilimoku?
The name of the moʻo who was the head of her family before the coming of Kū and Hina.
Who is Moʻoinanea?
The name of the mother of Kamehameha I.
Who is Kekūʻiapoiwa II?
The name of a mele that takes the listener on a tour of the island of Hawaiʻi through its larger districts.
What is Hilo Hanakahi?