Hawaiian Star Compass
Directions
Hale
Orientation
100

The Hawaiian name for this star compass

What is Kūkuluokalani?

100

The ___ divide the compass into quadrants

What are cardinal directions?

100

There are 32 hale in this star compass, they are each ___ degrees wide

What is 11.25?

100

The star compass was made to orient the canoe to ___

What are the rising and setting points of stars?

200

The creator of Kūkuluokalani

What is Nainoa Thompson?

200

The Hawaiian names for the cardinal directions 1.North 2.West 3.South 4.East

What are 1.'Ākau 2.Komohana 3.Hema 4.Hikina?

200

There are 7 hale that repeat throughout each quadrant in the Hawaiian star compass, they are ___

What are Lā, 'Āina, Noio, Manu, Nālani, Nāleo, Haka?

200

When a star rises in a hale of one of the quadrants it will set in ___

What is the same hale of the quadrant on the side of it?

300

This compass is split into ___ sections and each section has ___ hale/houses

What is 4,8?

300

The names for each quadrant of the star compass 1.NW 2.NE 3.SW 4.SE

What are 1.Ho'olua 2.Ko'olau 3.Kona 4.Malanai?

300

The meaning of each repeating hale (in order)

What are sun, land, Hawaiian tern, bird, heavens, voices, empty space?

300

A star sets directly opposite it rises in for this reason

What is traveling across the sky?

400

Kūkuluokalani is oriented in this direction

What is north?

400

The 4 quadrants are all named for ___

What are winds that blow from that direction?

400

The wind that comes in from this one direction will pass to this direction

What is the direction across the horizon?