Hina (chiefess)

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Hina (Hawaiian pronunciation: [ˈhinə]) is a Hawaiian feminine given name, and it is also the name of the important female deity in Hawaiian religion. This name was also given to several noble ladies (Hawaiian: Aliʻi Wahine) who lived in ancient Hawaii. It was popular during the early period of the rule of the Pili line.

List[]

  • Hinamaikalani (or Hinakaikalani) — wife of Hulumanailani and mother of the handsome Chief ʻAikanaka[1]
  • Hinahanaiakamalama — wife of ʻAikanaka and mother of Hemā
  • Hinamaikehoa — wife of Hemā and mother of Kaha'i
  • Hinauluohia — wife of Kaha'i
  • Hina-au-kekele — High Chiefess of the Big Island and the sister-wife of Pilikaʻaiea,[2] founder of the Pili line (a royal family); an ancestress of King Kamehameha I of Hawaii
  • Hinaʻauamai—daughter of Pilikaʻaiea and wife of her brother Koa[3]
  • Hinamaiheliʻi — daughter of Hinaʻauamai and wife of Aliʻiponi
  • Hineuki (full name: Hina-keʻuki) — Lady of the Big Island;[4] daughter of Hinamaiheliʻi, and half-sister and wife of the Chief Kukohou[5]
  • Hinakaimauliʻawa — Princess of Koʻolau

References[]

  1. ^ Samuel Kamakau (a Hawaiian historian). Tales and Traditions of People of Old.
  2. ^ Reginald Yzendoorn (1927). History of the Catholic Mission in the Hawaiian Islands. Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
  3. ^ Family of the lady Hinaauamai. "She married Koa (Ko)."
  4. ^ Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Bishop Museum Press, 1917.
  5. ^ Kepelino's Traditions of Hawaii (2007). Bishop Museum Press. On the page 192, the family tree of Kukohou is given.
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