Hina (chiefess)
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Hina (Hawaiian pronunciation: [ˈhinə]) is a name given to several noble ladies (Hawaiian: Aliʻi Wahine) who lived in ancient Hawaii. It was popular during the early period of the rule of the Pili line.
Hina is a Hawaiian feminine given name, and the name of goddess Hina, an important female deity in Hawaiian religion.
List of chiefesses called Hina
- Hinamaikalani (or Hinakaikalani) — wife of Hulumanailani and mother of the handsome Chief ʻAikanaka[1]
- Hinahanaiakamalama — wife of ʻAikanaka and mother of Hemā
- Hinamaikehoa — wife of Hemā and mother of Kaha'i
- Hinauluohia — wife of Kaha'i
- Hina-au-kekele — High Chiefess of the Big Island and the sister-wife of Pilikaʻaiea,[2] founder of the Pili line (a royal family); an ancestress of King Kamehameha I of Hawaii
- Hinaʻauamai—daughter of Pilikaʻaiea and wife of her brother Koa[3]
- Hinamaiheliʻi — daughter of Hinaʻauamai and wife of Aliʻiponi
- Hineuki (full name: Hina-keʻuki) — Lady of the Big Island;[4] daughter of Hinamaiheliʻi, and half-sister and wife of the Chief Kukohou[5]
- Hina of Hilo
- Hinakaimauliʻawa — Princess of Koʻolau
See also
The dictionary definition of Hina at Wiktionary
References
- ^ Samuel Kamakau (a Hawaiian historian). Tales and Traditions of People of Old.
- ^ Reginald Yzendoorn (1927). History of the Catholic Mission in the Hawaiian Islands. Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
- ^ Family of the lady Hinaauamai. "She married Koa (Ko)."
- ^ Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Bishop Museum Press, 1917.
- ^ Kepelino's Traditions of Hawaii (2007). Bishop Museum Press. On the page 192, the family tree of Kukohou is given.