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all others that profess to take up work for a state, that is really fictitious; there is no such thing.
<br />And with the light of day that dawns, as Billy says, every day we grow more conscious, every
<br />day. You know there is a saying, when a door closes, another opens. In 2007 when a new hotel
<br />owner came forward to say we own the lands at Kamakahonu, all the people that supported the
<br />first restoration of the capitol Ahu‘ena Heiau move forward, 500-plus from the islands of all of
<br />the Hawaiian Islands, to come forward and say, no, you don’t. And that’s not aloha. All the
<br />aloha that’s been shown to you all, you are not showing that back. And they’ve made a note of
<br />that and for many years since then. But they took the case on in legal jurisdiction of America
<br />that occupies Hawai‘i. Ahu‘ena Heiau is burning altar. At Kamakahonu this is our capitol, and
<br />it refers to the great light that is there. Kūkū Naluahine Kaopua of whom Nicole Lui so
<br />glowingly spoke, is due every bit of these honors because the people here who are ‘ohana of
<br />Kahalu‘u, Kahalu‘u is a land of supreme importance to ‘ōiwi, as are all our lands. Kūkū
<br />Naluahine Kaopua, 100 percent Hawaiian lived to be over 107. I sat on his lap when I was one
<br />year old. Now I’m very, very in awe of the life that I am living and learning about. My father,
<br />David Kahelemauna Roy, Jr., led the first company of ‘ōiwi to restore sacred site for Hawai‘i.
<br />This is Ahu‘ena Heiau, Kamakahonu, the eye of the turtle; it is the only location of
<br />Lananuumamao, which is an oracle in the Hawaiian Islands and in the Pacific. At the, as a
<br />spider, a nananana has her web, so Akua has his web of protection upon our islands. The truth is
<br />here. The truth is here every morning with the sunrise that says these lands, when people went to
<br />Mauna Kea to confirm the importance of the mountain, they were answering Akua’s call. You
<br />know, we all have names and different hats we wear in our lives, but, boy, when Akua calls our
<br />name, we answer. And that’s what happened; people of all walks of life, all bloodlines, went up
<br />to the mountain to protect. What were they protecting? This invisible call to say this is the
<br />pinnacle of Kaluaokalani. Kaluaokalani means, one interpretation, the second heaven. It’s this
<br />coastline that is the heart of this representation. It lives in oral traditions and that’s what you are
<br />hearing today, more of that. But again, why the mountain? The mountain is a world mountain
<br />because I have, I go back to say now, when a door closes, another opens; when this came about
<br />in controversy at Kamakahonu and door seemed to close, what opened for me was a line of
<br />communication to the very ancestors that we speak of with great respect and love. In 2010 I
<br />began receiving information and clear communications ever since then from them. And it’s this
<br />that I’ve been putting forward to all of the people at their request. One of them, and all of them,
<br />are very ali‘i. So I speak of this with great reverence. And this is why my name is, my station is
<br />not only Kahu, as I’ve inherited this from my father for the care of this temple for all of Hawai‘i,
<br />I am Lamakū. The ancestors tell me this is the name of persons that did what I am going to do in
<br />my life; they ask me to hear and they ask me to teach the people. They want, they want us to do
<br />that on the lands, and it just happens to be that is on the lands of Kahalu‘u. And there are no
<br />mistakes. This is my father’s \[displaying a traditional Hawaiian tool\], for the creation of the ki‘i.
<br />You know, I’m like that; when I feel like I’m going somewhere and I just have to grab
<br />something, I grab this today. And you know why, I know what it is, because I’m looking these
<br />faces in here, and I look at your children, you know, they need hands to hold this, this is still very
<br />operational. The same one, plus we’ve got to make more, we have to do more. I say that you
<br />must say no to this, because my father in addition to, and the men, of which they are all to be
<br />known as ali‘i, they all move forward to save on the basis of their bloodlines, this great
<br />inheritance of ours. This Ku‘emanu was among those that were stabilized by these great men,
<br />Hikiau at Kealakekua Bay, and Kauaka‘iakeola by Kūkū Naluahine. These are important
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