Individual Details

LIFE
A. Paao, a native of Upolo "having quarrelled with his brother Lonopele, he left and proceeded to Hawaii, where he established himself in the capacity of high priest; and finding the island in a state of anarchy and without a sovereign chief 'on account of the crimes of Kapawa, the chief of Hawaii' he sent back [or went back] to his native island, inviting some chief there to come and take possession of Hawaii. To which invitation Pili responded, and, having arrived at Hawaii, was confirmed in the government by Paao, whose family, after him, remained the high priests of the reigning chiefs of Hawaii until after Kamehameha I" (Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race, vol 2 p. 33-34). He built and officiated at the Heiau of Mookini.
B. "Paao arrived in Hawaii during the reign of Lono-ka-wai, the king of Hawaii" (Malo, Hawaiian Antiquities, p 6).
Conflict: Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 235 states he came during reign of La'au-alii.
C. Assisted Kalapana in the overthrow of the unjust ruler Kamaiole on Hawaii (Malo, Hawaiian Antiquities, p 248-251). Assisted Laakapu, mate of Kahoukapu, to have a child (p 255).
D. "Paao was a statesman and warrior as well as a priest, but he preferred spiritual to temporal authority; and when Kapawa died and was buried at Iao, leaving his possessions without a competent ruler and his subjects in a state bordering upon anarchy, Paao did not assume the chieftancy, as he manifestly might have done, but despatched messengers - if, indeed he did not go himself - to the land of his birth, to invite to Hawaii a chief capable of restoring order. Such a leader was found in Pilikaekae" (Kalakaua, The Legends and Myths of Hawaii, p 71).
E. "Paao must have lived 447 years or more, since he came during the rule of La'au-ali'i and died in that of Ka-maka-'ohua, father of Kau-a-Ka-maka-'ohua, the wife of Hoa-lani. From the time of La'au-ali'i to Ka-maka-'ohua there fifteen generations of chiefs" (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 235).
F. Fragment: Paao had a son Opili "who suceeded him in his religious offices" (Jarves, History of Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands, p 102).

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Molehai ( - )

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Kahuakanini ( - )