- Hanalaa
Hanalaa was the 4th
Mo'i of Maui . He was the titular chieftain or king of the island ofMaui . He had control over portions of Western Maui and relied on the allegiance of the many district chiefs.He was the son of
Palena , Moi of Maui, and his wife Hikawainui, and he was the great-grandson of theMaui Paumakua . He succeeded his father as Moi of Maui. He was a noted chieftain, whom both the Maui and Hawaii chiefs contended for as their ancestor under the varying names of Hanalaa-nui and Hanalaa-iki, asserting that Palena was the father of twins who bore those names or a mistake could have been made in the genealogies. It is probable both Hanalaa were the same person. [Abraham Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origin and Migrations, Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1969. Page 27]From Hanalaa-nui descends the
Alii Aimoku of Hawaii . Hanalaa-nui married Mahuia and begoted Lanakawai. Lanakawai wedded Kolohialiiokawai and begoted Laau. Laau married Kukamolimolialoha and begot Pili, the semi-legendary first king of Hawaii from Samoa. [History of the Sandwich Islands By Sheldon Dibble. Page 415] Why Pili ended up in Samoa is a mystery. These genealogies might have been fabricated by Ancient Mauian storytellers to state that the Moi of Maui were of a more ancient origin than any of the other island monarchs; it could be noted that the Mois of Maui stretched back about 9 more generations, than the other island kings, and that line was continously passed from father to son with some exceptions.From what was stated about Hanalaa-nui one might assume that from Hanalaa-iki descends the remaining Moi of Maui. But this was not the case, up to the time of the conquest of the islands, the Maui chiefs claimed Hanalaa-nui as their ancestor, and assigned Hanalaa-iki to the Hawaii chiefs; but after the conquest by
Kamehameha I , the claim of the Hawaii chiefs prevailed, and no genealogy recited after that ventured to give Maui the precendence in the claim upon the two brothers. [Abraham Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origin and Migrations, Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1969. Page 27]Hanalaa of Maui was succeed by his son
Mauiloa References
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* [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~barbpretz/ps02/ps02_081.html Hanala'anui]
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