Hawaiian Word of the Day: kapaʻau
kapaʻau: Raised place in the heiau where images and offerings were placed, and where the invisible gods were thought to dwell.
Kapaʻau is also the name of a place in North Kohala on Hawaiʻi Island. This is the birthplace of King Kamehameha I and nearby is the Moʻokini Heiau, one of the oldest and most sacred sites of ancient worship in Hawaiʻi. Moʻokini is literally many moʻo or many lineages.
Kamehameha statue in Kapaʻau, with school children from plantation families, 1908
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