The Epic Tale of Hi‘iakaikapoliopele - Softcover

Ho‘oulumāhiehie, Ho‘oulumāhiehie

9780988262911: The Epic Tale of Hi‘iakaikapoliopele

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0988262916 ISBN 13: 9780988262911

Publisher: Awaiaulu, Inc., 2013

This ancient saga begins with the goddess Pele’s migration to Kīlauea and her spirit’s search for a lover. The story then details the quest of Pele’s younger sister, Hi‘iakaikapoliopele, to find the handsome Lohi‘auipo, and bring him back to their crater home. It is a very human account of love and lust, jealousy and justice, peopled with deities, demons, chiefs and commoners.

This version by Ho‘oulumāhie-hie ran from 1905 to 1906 as a daily series in the Hawaiian-language newspaper Ka Na’i Aupuni. It is the most extensive form of the story ever documented, offering a wealth of detail and insights about social and religious practices, poetry and hula, healing arts, and many other Hawaiian customs.

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About the Author:

Little personal information is available on the historical Hawaiian writer, Ho'oulumahiehie, but he was a prolific teller of traditional and foreign stories whose works were frequently published in the late 19th and early 20th century newspapers. This tale was originally published as a six-day-per-week serial column in the Hawaiian-language daily Ka Na`i Aupuni in 1905 and 1906 r. Puakea Nogelmeier has taught awaiian language, literature and translation at the University of Hawai i, Manoa, for 25 years, and is Director/cofounderof Awaiaulu: Hawaiian Literature Project, which was established to train a new generation of translators and generate bilingual resources. These two volumes of Ho oulumahiehie's saga, in Hawaiian and English, are the products of those efforts.

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