Kahauokapaka

Family: Kahauokapaka's family · Role: chief · First appears: Chapter I · Part 1

In Chapter I, Kahauokapaka married Malaekahana and declared a vow about their children. When he returned from fishing and learned that she had given birth to a daughter, he ordered the executioner to kill her; he gave the same order for their second daughter.

In Chapter I, Malaekahana gave birth to twin daughters, Laieikawai and Laielohelohe. Laieikawai was given to Waka.

Relationship record

Life events

• The tale opens at Laie, Koolau, where twins would later be born to Kahauokapaka and Malaekahana (after the daughters killed under his vow).(Chapter I · Part 1 · 📍 Laie, Koolau)
  • With: Malaekahana
  • “This tale was told at Laie, Koolau; here they were born, and they were twins; Kahauokapaka was the father, Malaekahana the mother.”
• Kahauokapaka married Malaekahana and declared his vow about their children.(Chapter I · Part 1)
  • With: Malaekahana
  • “At the time when Kahauokapaka took Malaekahana to wife, after their union, during those moments of bliss when they had just parted from the first embrace, Kahauokapaka declared his vow to his wife, and this was the vow:”
• Kahauokapaka ordered the executioner to kill his first daughter.(Chapter I · Part 1)
  • “When Kahauokapaka returned from the fishing he was told that Malaekahana had born a daughter. The chief went to the house; the baby girl had been wrapped in swaddling clothes; Kahauokapaka at once ordered the executioner to kill it.”
• Kahauokapaka ordered the executioner to kill his second daughter.(Chapter I · Part 1)
  • “Kahauokapaka saw the baby girl in its mother's arms wrapped in swaddling clothes; then the chief at once ordered the executioner to kill it.”
• Malaekahana gave birth to twin daughters, Laieikawai and Laielohelohe.(Chapter I · Part 2)
  • With: Malaekahana Laieikawai Laielohelohe
  • “While they were gone the child was born, a girl, and she was given to Waka, and they named her Laieikawai. As they were attending to the first child, a second was born, also a girl, and they named her Laielohelohe.”

Chapter I · Part 1

• married with Malaekahana “At the time when Kahauokapaka took Malaekahana to wife, after their union, during those moments of bliss when they had just parted from the first embrace, Kahauokapaka declared his vow to his wife, and this was the vow:”

Chapter I · Part 2

• married with Malaekahana “Malaekahana said to her husband, ‘Listen, Kahauokapaka! the spawn of the manini come before my eyes; go after them, therefore, while they are yet afloat in the membrane; possibly when you bring the manini spawn, I shall be eased of the child; this is the first time my labor has been hard, and that I have craved the young of the manini; go quickly, therefore, to the fishing.’”
• child: Laieikawai (Kahauokapaka is the woman's husband and the child's father by context.) “While they were gone the child was born, a girl, and she was given to Waka, and they named her Laieikawai.”
• child: Laielohelohe (Kahauokapaka is the woman's husband and the child's father by context.) “As they were attending to the first child, a second was born, also a girl, and they named her Laielohelohe.”

Chapter XXV

• child: Laieikawai (Father is unnamed and therefore omitted as an entity; included only as a quoted relation endpoint would violate the named-person rule, so this relation is not valid.) “I have heard from my grandmother that this is my birthplace; we were twins, and because our father had killed the first children our mother bore, because they were girls, when we also were born girls, then I was hidden within a pool of water; there I was brought up by my grandmother.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Hawaiian Romance of Laieikawai. Made with Rho MD.