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  2. Konohiki - Wikipedia

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    Each of these mokus were further split into ahupuaa, named after the dividing boundary alter (altar? Ahu=altar, pua'a=pig) where taxes were collected for each area during the Makahiki. Each ahupuaa was then run by a headman or chief called a Konohiki. [4] In Keelikolani vs Robinson, the term is also translated as "land agent".

  3. Ahu A ʻUmi Heiau - Wikipedia

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    Ahu A ʻUmi Heiau means "shrine at the temple of ʻUmi" in the Hawaiian Language. [2] It is also spelled "ahu-a-Umi", or known as Ahua A ʻUmi Heiau , which would mean "mound of ʻUmi". It was built for ʻUmi-a-Liloa , often called ʻUmi, who ruled the island of Hawaiʻi early in the 16th century.

  4. Heiau - Wikipedia

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    There were also altars (Ahu) on which to offer sacrifices (plant, animal and human). The heiau were sacred places; only the kahuna (priests) and certain sacred ali'i (high chiefs) were allowed to enter.

  5. Kamakahonu - Wikipedia

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    The name means "temple of the burning altar" in the Hawaiian language. [3] His son, the crown prince Liholiho, also lived here, taking the name Kamehameha II. [4] [5] In December 1819, Kalanimoku led an army from here to put down the rebellion of his nephew Kekuaokalani, in the Kuamoʻo Battle, a few miles to the South. A battery of 18 cannons ...

  6. Altar of Consus - Wikipedia

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    The altar is highlighted in red. The Altar of Consus (Latin: Ara Consi) was an ancient Roman altar dedicated to the gods Consus and Mars, as well as the lares, which were ancient Roman household guardians. It was located beneath the Circus Maximus. [1] [2] The altar may have also served as the first turning post of the Circus Maximus.

  7. Ahu - Wikipedia

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  8. Kapaemahu - Wikipedia

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    The tradition of Kapaemahu, like all pre-contact Hawaiian knowledge, was orally transmitted. [11] The first written account of the story is attributed to James Harbottle Boyd, and was published by Thomas G. Thrum under the title “Tradition of the Wizard Stones Ka-Pae-Mahu” in the Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1907, [1] and reprinted in 1923 under the title “The Wizard Stones of Ka-Pae ...

  9. Sulis - Wikipedia

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    Sulis was the local goddess of the thermal springs that still feed the spa baths at Bath, which the Romans called Aquae Sulis ("the waters of Sulis"). [5] Sulis was likely venerated as a healing divinity, whose sacred hot springs could cure physical or spiritual suffering and illness. [6]