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OF PUEA. 



This is the name of a service relating to the IMakahiki (or New Year's) god. 

 'J'he observance of this service was held during the journey of the akualoa (long god) 

 and akuopoko (short god)'" directed its ceremonies. 



IIOO\VILIWII<IMOO.'' 



It is the name of another service which was observed for the benefit of all the 

 people, which was held in the daytime. If the service was properly conducted without 

 the least defect, the people would be profited, and no misfortune would occur. 



ONEONEIHONUA.'' 



This was a service which related to the chiefs only; oliia was the timber used 

 for the temple which was called the Hakuohia'''' (Lord of the Ohia). 



69. METHOD OF BUILDING THE TEMPLE. 



When the king desired to build a temple the high priest of the order of priest- 

 hood would select the i^lace where the temple was to be erected, this priest" was called 

 the architect. In relation to the work of the tem])le. the priest must first prepare the 

 sacrifices of pigs, red fish, coconuts, as offerings to the deities. When the people 

 reached a tree, the pig and other sacrifices prepared were offered to the gods." After 

 the tree was cut and hauled down, then was the time for a transgressor to be sacrificed 

 and laid near the hole where the timber was to be placed. The post ka poiiaiiianu,"'' 

 was then erected. It was the post at the rear of the house at a place opposite the 

 entrance. At the completion of the temple an altar was built where the human sacrifice 

 was placed. 



In building a temple for the use of the people, it was not constructed exactly 

 like that of the chiefs. The chiefs had large temples, and the people of several dis- 

 tricts, or an island, built them. A temple was constructed with a name for each 

 division from the exterior to the interior. Outside of the temple it had a certain name 

 called the kipapa (pavement) ; inside of the kipapa was the drum house, and further in 



'"The gods of the Makahiki festival were carried in 

 the procession on long and sliort poles, the long god to 

 circuit the island, the short god onl^' its district. This 

 was at the annual tax gathering period. On the return 

 of the akua l^oko. the honrtres of Puea were lit on the 

 hill tops as a signal to lisliermen that no canoes should 

 put to sea till their bright flames should cease. 



"This was an alia or service, somewhat akin to litila- 

 liula in its solemnity, though not in severity; the former 

 being observed during the day, the hulahula at night. 



'"One of the dedicatory services of a sacrificial temple. 



"The Hakuohia was a section of selected ohia, for a 

 special purpose in the temple and held so sacred that its 

 bark even was not to be scratched in its conveyance 

 from the forest. 



"One having also the skill of a f'liiioiic. This is for 

 the erection of a Inakiiii, or sacrificial temple. 



"Kamakau, the historian, describes the procedure as 

 follows: "When tlie priest and the king reach the se- 

 lected ohia tree, Kumakua, tlie priest seizes a young 

 pig and causes it to squeal at the same time reciting 

 the prayer for felling the ohia. Then the king seizes 

 the two famous axes of ancient time from the gods, 

 and touches tlie tree. Then the chiefs with another axe 

 will cut down the tree and trim off its branches to a 

 finisli. The pig, coconut and the covering shall then 

 be buried at the base of the felled tree, whereupon this 

 and that man shall shout, after which the pigs are baked 

 and the logs cut to lengths. * * * When the feast 

 is ended the fragments remaining, with a human victim, 

 are taken into the forest and at the root of the prominent 

 selected ohia the body, called the 'man of Mauhaalelea', 

 is cut in pieces and all are buried together." 



'''Pou-a-maiiu : this also was a term given the post set 

 up marking the place of tlie human sacrifice just above 

 referred to. 



