Kauakahialii

Family: Kauai · Role: chief · First appears: Chapter III · Part 2

In Chapter III, after returning to Kauai with his wife Kailiokalauokekoa, Kauakahialii was asked about his marriage. Laieikawai, whom he was to marry, came to the house where he was staying “at the first streak of light.”

In Chapter XIX, as he lay dying, Kauakahialii blessed his friend Kekalukaluokewa and entrusted him with the rule and the care of their wife, Kailiokalauokekoa. “In the end Kauakahialii died; the chief, his friend, took the rule, and their wife was the counsellor.”

Relationship record

Life events

• Kauakahialii and Kailiokalauokekoa returned to Kauai together.(Chapter III · Part 2 · 📍 Kauai)
  • With: Kailiokalauokekoa
  • “When Kauakahialii and Kailiokalauokekoa returned to Kauai after their meeting with the ‘beauty of Paliuli’ there were gathered together the high chiefs, the low chiefs, and the country aristocracy as well, to see the strangers who came with Kailiokalauokekoa's party.”
• Kauakahialii and Kailiokalauokekoa were married.(Chapter III · Part 2)
  • With: Kailiokalauokekoa
  • “After the wailing the chiefs asked Kauakahialii, ‘How did your journey go after your marriage with Kailiokalauokekoa?’”
• Laieikawai, whom Kauakahialii's man had told that Kauakahialii was to be her husband, arrived at the door of the house where Kauakahialii was staying.(Chapter III · Part 2)
  • With: Laieikawai
  • “At midnight rang the note of the elepaio; at dawn rang the note of the apapane; and at the first streak of light rang the note of the iiwipolena; as soon as it sounded there fell the shadow of a figure at the door of the house. Behold! the room was thick with mist, and when it passed away she lay resting on the wings of birds in all her beauty.”
• Kauakahialii died, and Kekalukaluokewa took the rule.(Chapter XIX)
  • With: Kekalukaluokewa
  • “In the end Kauakahialii died; the chief, his friend, took the rule, and their wife was the counsellor.”

Chapter III · Part 2

• married with Kailiokalauokekoa “After the wailing the chiefs asked Kauakahialii, ‘How did your journey go after your marriage with Kailiokalauokekoa?’”
• admired: Laieikawai “On the first night that she met my man she told him at what time she would reach the place where we were staying and the signs of her coming, for my man told her I was to be her husband and entreated her to come down with him; but she said: 'Go back to this ward of yours who is to be my husband and tell him this night I will come.”

Chapter XIX

• friends with Kekalukaluokewa “Then Kauakahialii laid a blessing upon his friend, Kekalukaluokewa, and this it was:”
• married with Kailiokalauokekoa “Only one thing for you to guard, our wife.”
• protégé: Kekalukaluokewa “When I fall dead, there where sight of you and our wife comes not back, then do you rule over the island, you above, and our wife below; as we two ruled over the island, so will you and our wife do.”
• with Kekalukaluokewa (They share a wife.) “Only one thing for you to guard, our wife.”
• with Kailiokalauokekoa (interaction) “Only one thing for you to guard, our wife.”

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