About ‘Aihualama
ʻAihualama is often associated with ʻAihualama Falls.
While ʻAihualama currently has no direct translation, this puʻu is linked with Puʻu Pueo through the moʻolelo of Kahalaopuna. In this moʻolelo, Kahalaopuna is killed multiple times by her jealous husband and each time is revived by her ʻaumakua (ancestral spirit) who manifests as a pueo or owl.
How to observe the site
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Sources for the information
- Pukui, Mary Kawena, and Samuel Hoyt Elbert. “wahi pana.” In Hawaiian-English Dictionary, 1986. https://hilo.hawaii.edu/wehe/?q=wahi+pana.
- Pukui, Mary Kawena, and Samuel Hoyt Elbert. “wahi.” In Hawaiian-English Dictionary, 1986. https://hilo.hawaii.edu/wehe/?q=wahi.
- Pukui, Mary Kawena, and Samuel Hoyt Elbert. “pana.” In Hawaiian-English Dictionary, 1986. https://hilo.hawaii.edu/wehe/?q=pana.
- Silva, Noenoe K. The Power of the Steel-Tipped Pen: Reconstructing Native Hawaiian Intellectual History. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.
- Nakuina, Emma M. Hawaii, Its People, Their Legends. Honolulu, T.H., 1904.