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I also noted in my readings that John IÒi had described the area as a place which was most frequented by the alii of old, back to the time of Umialiloa, wh grandchildren that seemed to have taken control of the rule of this island. And as a result of his being the, you might say the father of the people in that dynasty, that is in that genealogy, he became known in Kona as the one who went to the mountains to live and to rule. And, so, he commuted to Kailua everyday from Hualalai. And in his rule here in Kona, he made a major impact by establishing heiaus all over the place. However, it seemed that in the study of this genealogy, the children in the lineup were brother and sister, Piliuka, Keakealanikane and Keliiokalani was the sister. They were brothers and sisters of the same parts; and out of this arrangement, the brother and sister married and a daughter was born. Now, the daughter that was born was called Keakea, Keakamahana, and she married another closely-related person named Ilikauikaua. Now this was a big, old woman who was married to a close relative, and so it became an exulted arrangement in the Hawaiian Islands. And so Keakealanikane and Keakealaniwahine are father and daughter and the daughter married Ilikauikaua, again, excuse me. Ilikauikaua went over to Oahu and married the daughter of Kakuheewa and out of that union was born a son; and that son ultimately returned to HawaiÒi and married his half Keakealaniwahine. And through that arrangement, the most exulted rank in Oahu was brought over and recognized in HawaiÒi, and became a rank that was carried on and recognized by the HawaiÒi people, and used for the first time in HawaiÒi. And that rank was known as the Kapuwohi and the Kapuwohi took place right here where KeakealaniÓs house is. This was the bringing of that kapu and it was given to Keaumokunui, who is the father of Keua, Keua the father, who was in turn the father of Kamehameha. So Keaumokunui eventually was conquered and killed in battle with his relative, his half- brother, Ahupahinui. Now here these people were all descendants of Keakealaniwahine, which is the woman who occupied the site of this pakiha, which is KeakealaniÓs residence. Now I didnÓt find this out right then and there at the first time that I knew about this place, but I read a lot afterwards and developed this chain of command. And I got to the point where I know that this was a very, very special place in Hawaiian history and it was meant to be kept as such. The only trouble is things took a turn when Kamehameha III initiated his change in land management and handling and created the Great Mahele in which land was developed, distributed to the people. And when he gave his share back to the people, that made it possible for fee simple ownership among This was the time in our history, Hawaiian history, which was a major change in attitude and so forth; and I guess thatÓs the reason why much of our history had been lost, because very few people paid attention to anything that is important prior to that. The advent of the American civilization, in western civilization through America, was catastrophic to what our Hawaiian people had as unity. And it changed all kinds of ideas about religious kapus, and rank, and so forth. You might say that this was a system, a situation that took place where the idea of a classless assess took hold. And it was even a matter of comment that a queen who had a certain seat in a show was looked upon by missionary people as a mahaÒoi in our 33