► Piianaia Genealogy Compared with Queen Emma's

Honolulu Star Bulletin - Clarice B. Taylor's Tales About Hawaii

July 8, 1953

PIIANAIA GENEALOGY COMPARED WITH QUEEN'S

No. 20

     Like the Kalawainui genealogy, the Piianaia genealogy starts with the medieval chiefs of the Big Island who were prominant in their days of King Umi-a-liloa. These chiefs included the sons and daughters of Umi ; the Kanaloa and Mahi chiefs of Kohala and the I family of Hilo.

     Their lineage follows the line of the royal family through the 17th century, when Keawe II, the King of Hawaii, had a son Kalanikeaaumoku by his wife Kalanikauleleiaiwi. The son was a half brother of the Kalaninuiamamao of the Kalawaianui pedigree.

MODERN LINEAGE

     Kalanikeaaumoku (k) ia Kamakaimoku (w) of the House of I and had Keoua Kalanikupuapai (k) who died in 1752.

     Keoua ia Kekuiapoiwa (w) and had two sons, Kamehameha and Kalanimailokuloku-i-Kepookalani, who was later known as Keliimaikai, the good chief.

     Keliimaikai (k) ia Kalikookalani (w) and had Kaoanaeha (w) the wife of John Young. He later married Nunehiwaokalani (w) and had a son Piianaia.

     Piianaia (k) ia Kina or Kekuapuoikamai (w) and had two daughters, Kalilioku II, and Ulualoha I.

     Piianaia (k) also ia Keakaokalani (w) and had Kupaai (k), Kalilioku I (w) and Kikiakoi (k). Their descendants are not enumerated. 

     Ulualoha, daughter of Piianaia and Kina, had no children.

     Kalilioku II, daughter of Piianaia and Kina, and married Akuna and had Ulualoha II (w), Abraham St. Chad, Alania (w), Kikiakoi Keliihooluhi (k), Kikiakoi II (k), and Kamoonohu (w).

COUSINS

     Ulualoha II (w) was married twice. Her first husband was Liwai Isaac Kaiama by whom she had Ponilani (w), Nahaukapu (w), Leilehua (w) and Pua (k).

     Ulualoha by Daniel Keliaa had a son Daniel and several others.

     Alania (w) married Edward Wilcox and adopted several children.

     Keliihooluhi, Kikiakoi and Kamoonohu left no children.

     Abraham St. Chad Piianaia married Fanny Malulani Kahoalii and had the four children named in this story.

     going back to the Liwai Kaiama family, Ponilani (w) married Kahalau and had a son Kahalau. Leilehua married Charles Makanui

     The relationship between the Queen's famiy and the Piianaia's stems from Keliimaikai, the good chief. 

     This ends the story of the Hidden Alii and the Piianaia family.

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Source: https://familysearch.org/patron/v2/TH-300-43958-0-84/dist.pdf?ctx=ArtCtxPublic

► The Kahuna and His Polynesian Gods

The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Wednesday,June 10, 1959 - Clarice B. Taylor's "Tales about Hawaii"

     Haole "seekers of the truth" who came to Daddy (David K.) Bray for enlightenment are often surprised to learn that the old Hawaiians had religious differences just as we have today.

     Each of the four great gods of Hawaii had their "school" of priests and followers. The schools were like the division among our Catholic,  Episcopalean, Unitarian and Congregationalists.

     In addition there were many independent Kahunas who set up their own schools, much like today's cultists.

KANE CREATOR
     All ancient schools acknowledged Kane as the creator and giver of life. They acknowledged Ku-nui-akea as the architect and builder, the god who was the builder and destroyer at the same time.

     Lono-nui-akea, was the god of fertility - he who dwelt in the rain clouds and was a messenger between earth and Kane.

     Kanaloa was the god of the ocean and sustainer of life; important because "it is from the ocean that come life."

     These four were the high gods. Dwelling on earth were thousands of other gods of whom, Pele, the volcano, and Haumea, the earth goddess, were the more important.

     During the nineteenth century, after the coming of Christianity, there arose a group among the Hawaiians who claimed that their ancestors had worshipped a supreme god named Io. They produced  an ancient prayer to prove their contention.

     Daddy Bray is one of those who believes in Io.

     In accepting the Bible, practically all nineteenth century Hawaiians thought of Kane as "god the father", Ku as the "Holy Ghost" and Lono as "Christ".

     Kanaloa was consigned to hell by these people.

     Because of this identification of the old gods with the Trinity in the Bible, you often hear Hawaiians of today say "We had the truth long before the white man brought us the Bible."

     In addition to all these gods, the Hawaiians had personal saints whom they called aumakua. The aumakua were definitely ancestors who regularly visited their earth children to give them assistance. 

     The aumakua of the day were those who had lived on earth and helped with early matters. The aumakua of the night was a "Heavenly force."

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