Inoa | Name(s)
Haleakalā
Hiʻona ʻāina | Land characteristic: Mauna
Hiʻona ʻāina o loko o kēia wahi | Feature(s) located within this place: Pōhaku; Pālaha
Hiʻona ʻāina nona kēia wahi | Feature(s) that contain this place: Maui, Kula, Hāmākualoa, Koʻolau(Maui), Hāna, Kīpahulu, Kaupō, Kahikinui, Honuaʻula
Hōʻuluʻulu manaʻo
ʻO Haleakalā ke kuahiwi nui loa o ka mokupuni o Maui. Aia ka luapele ma Haleakalā ma ke ahupuaʻa ʻo Nuʻu ma ka moku ʻo Kaupō. Wahi a ka ʻōlelo Noʻeau, “Akāka wale o Haleakalā” no ka ʻike koke ʻana i ke kuahiwi ma muli o kona nui.
Description
National park (established in 1961), volcano, peak, ranch, and visitor center, East Maui; homesteads, Kahului qd., Maui. Lit., house [used] by the sun (the demigod Māui was believed to have lassoed the sun here in order to lengthen the day, and permit his mother, Hina, to dry her tape). Name of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Bishop at the site of the Bishop Trust Building at Bishop and King streets; classroom building (built in 1931) at Ka-mehameha Schools, Honolulu (Place Names of Hawaiʻi)
ʻŌlelo kuhikuhi
E koho iā “Haleakalā” no ke kuahiwi nui ma Maui. No ka puʻu ma Nānākuli, Waiʻanae e koho iā “Heleakalā”
Instructions
Use for the highest peak on Maui. Not to be confused with the hill called Heleakalā in Nānākuli, Waiʻanae.
Moʻokūʻauhau | Genealogy
Akua | Deity: Māui (Akua); Pele; Nāmakaokahaʻi
Kūmole | Source(s)
Pukui, Mary Kawena. ’Olelo No’eau : Hawaiian Proverbs & Poetical Sayings. Honolulu, Hawai’i: Bishop Museum Press, 1983.
Hoʻopili ʻia i | Applied to: Pohinahina: boy from the sun, The museum forest of south Haleakalā, Wehe aela ka ‘Īao ma Haleakalā
Mea haku | Created by: Na ka hui ʻimi naʻauao o Ka Wai Hāpai