Laukieleula

Family: Moanalihaikawaokele's family · Role: mother of Kahalaomapuana · First appears: Chapter XXVII · Part 1

In Chapter XXVII, Laukieleula is named as the mother of Aiwohikupua and Kahalaomapuana, and as the sister of Mokukelekahiki and Kaeloikamalama. In Chapter XXVIII, Kahalaomapuana reveals herself to Laukieleula as “the last fruit of your womb.” Laukieleula embraces her and wails over her for guarding her polluted clothes, then agrees to help her bring her brother Kaonohiokala to Laieikawai.

At Awakea, Halulu carries Laukieleula and Kahalaomapuana to where Kaonohiokala lives. Laukieleula wakes him by holding one of the sun’s rays, then consents when he asks to go to Laieikawai as his wife. In Chapter XXX, Laukieleula is among those whose daughters and Laieikawai are taken to dwell in the moon; in Chapter XXXIV, she joins Moanalihaikawaokele and Laieikawai in seeing Kaonohiokala’s sin and deciding what to do about him.

Relationship record

Life events

• Kahalaomapuana reveals herself to Laukieleula as her daughter.(Chapter XXVIII · Part 1)
  • With: Kahalaomapuana
  • “Said the stranger, ‘I am Kahalaomapuana, the last fruit of your womb.’”
• Laukieleula embraces and wails over Kahalaomapuana for guarding her polluted clothes.(Chapter XXVIII · Part 1)
  • With: Kahalaomapuana
  • “She embraced the girl and wailed out the words in the line above.”
• Laukieleula consents to Kahalaomapuana’s request to bring her brother to Laieikawai.(Chapter XXVIII · Part 1)
  • With: Kahalaomapuana
  • “The mother said, “I grant it in recompense for your guarding my polluted garment.”
• Halulu carries Laukieleula and Kahalaomapuana to Awakea.(Chapter XXVIII · Part 1 · 📍 Awakea)
  • With: Kahalaomapuana Halulu
  • “Then Laukieleula and Kahalaomapuana rested upon the bird's wings and it flew and came to Awakea, the Noonday, the one who opens the door of the sun where Kaonohiokala lived.”
• Laukieleula woke Kaonohiokala by bringing Kahalaomapuana to seek him.(Chapter XXVIII · Part 2)
  • With: Kahalaomapuana
  • “Then Laukieleula seized hold of one of the sun's rays and held it. Then the chief awoke.”
• Kaonohiokala asked Laukieleula for permission to get Laieikawai as his wife, and she consented.(Chapter XXVIII · Part 2)
  • With: Kaonohiokala
  • “When the chief heard these things, he turned to their mother and asked, ‘Laukieleula, do you consent to my going to get the one whom she speaks of for my wife?’ ‘I have already given you, as she requested me; if anyone else had brought her to get you, if she had not come to us two, she might have stayed below; grant your little sister's request, for you first opened the pathway, she closed it; no one came before, none after her.’ Thus the mother.”
• Kaonohiokala's five sisters and Laieikawai were taken up to dwell in the moon.(Chapter XXX · 📍 the moon)
  • With: Kaonohiokala Kahalaomapuana Laieikawai Laielohelohe Moanalihaikawaokele
  • “When these words were ended the seer went away, and when he had departed the five sisters were taken up to dwell with the wife in the shelter of the moon.”
• Laieikawai and her parents-in-law saw Kaonohiokala’s sin and decided what to do about him.(Chapter XXXIV · Part 2)
  • With: Laieikawai Moanalihaikawaokele
  • “That day they all came together, Laieikawai and her parents-in-law, to see what to do about Kaonohiokala, and they came to their decision.”

Chapter XXVII · Part 1

• child: Kahalaomapuana “She told them, ‘Kahalaomapuana, the youngest daughter of Moanalihaikawaokele and Laukieleula.’”
• siblings with Mokukelekahiki “For Mokukelekahiki and Kaeloikamalama were brothers of Laukieleula, Aiwohikupua's mother.”
• siblings with Kaeloikamalama “For Mokukelekahiki and Kaeloikamalama were brothers of Laukieleula, Aiwohikupua's mother.”
• child: Aiwohikupua “Laukieleula, Aiwohikupua's mother”

Chapter XXVII · Part 2

• child: Kahalaomapuana “She answered, ‘Yours by Laukieleula.’”

Chapter XXVIII · Part 1

• child: Kahalaomapuana “Said the stranger, ‘I am Kahalaomapuana, the last fruit of your womb.’”

Chapter XXVIII · Part 2

• child: Kahalaomapuana “Said the sister, ‘Mokukelekahiki's, Kaeloikamalama's, Moanalihaikawaokele's through Laukieleula.’”
• child: Kaonohiokala (The mother is identified as Laukieleula by direct address.) “When the chief heard these things, he turned to their mother and asked, ‘Laukieleula, do you consent to my going to get the one whom she speaks of for my wife?’ ‘I have already given you, as she requested me; if anyone else had brought her to get you, if she had not come to us two, she might have stayed below; grant your little sister's request, for you first opened the pathway, she closed it; no one came before, none after her.’ Thus the mother.”

Chapter XXX

• child: Kaonohiokala “Then the sound of shouting was heard all over Kauai at the sight of the beloved child of Moanalihaikawaokele and Laukieleula, the great high chief of Kahakaekaea and Nuumealani.”

Chapter XXXIV · Part 1

• younger kin: Laieikawai (Mother-in-law.) “your mother-in-law, Laukieleula, might hear, the one who guards the gourd of wisdom.”

Chapter XXXIV · Part 2

• with Laieikawai (The passage identifies Laukieleula as one of Laieikawai's parents-in-law.) “Then Moanalihaikawaokele's wrath was kindled, and Laukieleula heard it also, and her parents-in-law went to the gourd--lo! they plainly saw the sin committed as Laieikawai had said.”

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