History of the Hawaiian Priesthood in Olden Time, 



Called Hoomanamana. 



EXPLANATORY REMARKS. 



IN WRITING the history of the priesthood I am not able to present the genealogy 

 of those who established the order in these islands in this historical account of the 

 priesthood, because I do not know of any one now living who could verify the ac- 

 count of those who founded the order amoiig this people. However, this is what I do 

 know of this subject. I recollect, through hearsay, of the works of the priesthood of 

 these islands in ancient times, because when i was at the age of fourteen years I began 

 to have a clear understanding of the character of the order of Priesthood, and from that 

 time until A. D. i8.^8, 1 occasionally heard of the practices of the order. 



In the year 1838, when Mr. E. Bailey and Mr. 1. Bliss, American missionaries, 

 arrived in Kohala and were erecting Hawaiian houses for themselves, my guardian was 

 residing at Nunulu in Kohala. His name was Kaili, and he was in the line of chiefs of 

 the Kalanimoku chain, and an uncle of Haalelea. 



While the missionaries were erecting their houses according to Hawaiian cus- 

 tom, my guardian at the same time showed his knowledge of the order of priesthood, 

 thus: Mr. Bliss was the first to build his house. My guardian observed that the posi- 

 tion of the house was im])roper and the location of the building was also faulty. There 

 were also defects in the position of the posts. Kaili then remarked, "Had this been in 

 the times that have passed, this house would be [considered] faulty; the owner of the 

 house would not long reside [therein] before removing to another place. Not so, how- 

 ever, in this new era which is under the power of Jehovah. It will not occur." 



When Mr. Bliss's house was completed, a few days afterward Mr. Baile> erected 

 his house, in the Hawaiian style also. At its erection, and completed except one corner, 

 one side was then undone and rethatched. Kaili again remarked, as he had done of the 

 house of Mr. Bliss. They lived in those two houses nearly two years, after which they 

 moved to lole,' and in A. D. 1841, Mr. Bliss left for America, while Mr. E. Bailey re- 

 moved to Wailuku, Maui. This was the fulfillment of his priestly knowledge. From 

 that time down to A. D. 1854, in the month of June, I heard from time to time of the order 

 of priesthood. 



At that [jeriod my knowledge increased regarding the wirious divisions of the 

 priesthood, relating to the office of true priestly healing; the office of divination; weather 

 prophesying and architecture; also of the art of ])raying to death and sorcery; for, my 

 said guardian was taught in the art of divination (kilokilo) and weather prophesying; he 

 was also trained in the art of true healing and had some knowledge of praying to death 

 and sorcery. He, however, lacked in architecture. The husband of my mother's elder 



'lole is that part of the Kuliala district occupied bv tlie Protestant native clnircli and mission premises. 

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