The advent of Paao and his erection of this heiau are so ancient, according to the old men, that Night helped the priest raise the temple: Na ka po i kukulu ae la Mokini, a na Paao nae.
He it was who built the heiau situated on the great plain of Makanau.
On the way to Hilo the first landing is usually at Kawaihae, an insignificant village, of no interest except for the great heiau of Kamehameha I, the last heathen temple erected in the Islands, dating from 1791.
These heiau are said to have been built by the gods in the misty past soon after landing on these shores.
To this Olopana was attributed the heiau of Kawaewae at Kaneohe.
The only dwellings within theheiau were those of the priests, and the "sacred house" of the king, in which he resided during the seasons of strict Tabu.
In old days it is said that a king of Hawaii assembled most of the adults of the then populous island, and formed a human chain three miles long to pass up stones for the building of the great Heiau in Kona.
It lies at the base of a cone crowned with a heiau and a clump of coco palms.
Kapoi was thereupon seized, by the King's orders, and led to the heiau of Kupalaha, at Waikiki.
The chief and his people were surprised on coming the next morning to resume their labors, to find the heiau completed.
Return to the heiau of Puukahi, at the foot of the pali, and take the priest Kahiwakaapuu on your back, and carry him up the pali over to the other side of the island, all the way to your home at Kaluaaha.
This King had made a law that whoever among his people should erect a heiau and kapu the same before the King had his temple kapued, that man should pay the penalty of death.
There stands on the pali of Waikolu, near Kalaupapa, Molokai, a heiau that Hawaiians believe to have been constructed by no one else than the Menehunes.
The heiau of Mookini, near Honoipu, Kohala, is pointed out as an instance of their marvellous work.
Ia manawa, komo pinepine ae la oia iloko o ka Heiau i Pahauna, malaila oia i pule hoomau ai i kona akua.
Knowing the heiau was nearing completion the fishermen guessed the reason for the king's early morning visit and had no intention of remaining to receive him.
This heiau was unusually large and considerable time was consumed in building it.
My heiau will not require a human sacrifice, for it shall never be used.
So it happened that this was the first heiau ever built without its human sacrifice, and the last one constructed on the Island.
Of course a heiau must be built, and he ordered construction to begin immediately, selecting a site near the mouth of the Wailuku where today stands the armory of the National Guard of Hawaii.
Today a careful observer may, by peering beneath the Armory Hall, make out the few remaining stones which were once a part of the foundation of the last heiau built on Hawaii.
Now Tahitian customs were very like those of Hawaii at that time, in that the Tahitians offered human sacrifices when a canoe or a heiau was in process of construction.
The priests living in the heiau (temple), Pakaalana, beat their drums, and all Waipio knew that a chief was born.
This temple is said to be the oldest of all the Hawaiian heiaus--except possibly the heiau at Kohala on the northern coast of the same island.
The native chants said, "No keia heiau oia ke kapu enaena.
They were to build a tabu fence around the heiau and put up the sacred tabu staffs of white tapa cloth.
Then he told Kamalo to go to the heiau of the priest who told him to see the shark-god, take this priest on his shoulders, carry him over the steep precipices to his own heiauat Kaluaaha, and there live with him as a fellow-priest.
Hina arose and went to the heiau (temple) and heard the story of her brothers, who came also with the warriors.
Down came the torrent upon the heiau belonging to Kupa, tearing its walls into fragments and washing Kupa and his people into the harbor at the mouth of the valley.
This heiaunow bears the name Wahaula, or "red-mouth.
To this day these small water places border the path across the pahoehoe lava field which lies adjacent to the broken a-a lava upon which the Wahaula heiau is built.
This was the last heiau destroyed when the ancient tabus and ceremonial rites were overthrown by the chiefs just before the coming of Christian missionaries.
Meanwhile the boys were tempted to go to Kupa's heiau and try the wonderful drums.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heiau" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
