Aiwohikupua

Role: high chief · First appears: Chapter IX · Pele and the Snow-goddess · Part 1

In Chapter IX · Pele and the Snow-goddess · Part 1, high chief Aiwohikupua proposed marriage to Poliahu at Hamakua, and they sealed their betrothal by exchanging cloaks. After their marriage festival, they went to Kauai. There, a Maui queen revealed that Aiwohikupua had promised himself to her and charged him with perfidy; Poliahu turned against her husband and forsook him.

In Part 2, Aiwohikupua’s friends reconciled him with the Maui chiefess. But when their wedding day came, Poliahu’s cold and heat drove the chiefess away from Kauai.

Relationship record

Life events

• Aiwohikupua proposed marriage to Poliahu, and they exchanged cloaks to seal their betrothal.(Chapter IX · Pele and the Snow-goddess · Part 1 · 📍 Hamakua)
  • With: Poliahu
  • “He landed and proposed marriage, but she made a betrothal with him by the exchange of the cloaks which they were wearing.”
• Poliahu and Aiwohikupua went to Kauai after their marriage festival.(Chapter IX · Pele and the Snow-goddess · Part 1 · 📍 Kauai)
  • With: Poliahu
  • “After the days of the marriage festival Poliahu and her chief went to Kauai.”
• The queen revealed Aiwohikupua’s promise to her and charged him with perfidy.(Chapter IX · Pele and the Snow-goddess · Part 1 · 📍 Kauai)
  • With: the Maui chiefess
  • “A queen of the island Maui had also a promise given by Aiwohikupua. In her anger she hastened to Kauai and in the midst of the Kauai festivities revealed herself and charged the chief with his perfidy.”
• Poliahu turned against Aiwohikupua and forsook him.(Chapter IX · Pele and the Snow-goddess · Part 1 · 📍 Kauai)
  • With: Poliahu
  • “Poliahu turned against her husband and forsook him.”
• The Maui chiefess left Aiwohikupua after Poliahu’s cold and heat drove her away.(Chapter IX · Pele and the Snow-goddess · Part 2)
  • With: the Maui chiefess
  • “So the Maui chiefess hastened away from Kauai to her own home.”

Chapter IX · Pele and the Snow-goddess · Part 1

• married with Poliahu “There is a legend of Kauai woven into the fairy-tale of the maiden of the mist—Laieikawai—and in this story Poliahu for a short time visits Kauai as the bride of one of the high chiefs who bore the name Aiwohikupua.”
• engaged with the Maui chiefess “A queen of the island Maui had also a promise given by Aiwohikupua.”
• engaged with Poliahu “He landed and proposed marriage, but she made a betrothal with him by the exchange of the cloaks which they were wearing.”

Chapter IX · Pele and the Snow-goddess · Part 2

• courtship with the Maui chiefess “The chief’s friends made reconciliation between the Maui chiefess and Aiwohikupua, but when the day of marriage came the chiefess found herself surrounded by an invisible atmosphere of awful cold.”

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Extracted from the original text of Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes. Made with Rho MD.