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[This list, tracing backward, differs somewhat from that of the Nanaulu line of comparative genealogy in Vol. I, of “Polynesian Race,” page 249.]
| 37. | Kalaunuiohua | Keenuihelemoku (w) |
| Kapapalimulimu (w) | Kupapalahalaha | |
| Nakoloilani (w) | Hekilimakakaakaa | |
| Kauilanuimakehaikalani | Keolaihonua (w) | |
| Kapunohulani | Kaalewalewa (w) | |
| Kekoiula-a-Kahai | Keanuenuepiolani (w) | |
| Hinahanaiakamalama | ||
| 38. | Kumuleilani (w) | Kuaiwa (k) |
| Halolena | ||
| Kalenaula | ||
| Owa | ||
| Kaululena | ||
| Kuhimakaukona | ||
| 35. | Ahukini-a-Laa | Hai-a-kamio (w) |
| Luaehu |
[Lists numbered 37 and 38 seem to have been worked out from material in Kuokua for 1868, June 20 and July 18 issues. The numbers 37, 38 and 35 refer to genealogy as given in “Polynesian Race,” p. 249.] [[330]]
[1] See Fornander’s Poly. Races, Vol. 1. [↑]
Notes on the Polynesian Calendar.
The Polynesians divided the years into seasons, months and days. The seasons, or kau, of the year were generally two: the rainy or winter season, and the dry or summer season, varying according to the particular situation of the group, either north or south of the equator. The commencement of the seasons, however, were regulated by the rising of the Pleiades, or Makalii, at the setting of the sun. Thus in the Society group the year was divided in Makarii-i-ria,—Pleiades above the horizon,—and Makarii-i-raro, Pleiades below: the first from November to May, the latter from May to November. In the Hawaiian group the year was divided into two seasons, hooilo, the rainy season, from about the 20th of November to 20th of May, and kau, the dry season from 20th May to 20th November. In the Samoan, tau or tausanga meant originally a period of six months, and afterwards was employed to express the full year of twelve months as in the Tonga group. There are traces, also, on the Society group of the year having been divided into three seasons or tau, like the Egyptians, Arabs and Greeks, though the arrangement of the months within each season seems to me to have been arbitrary and probably local.
In regard to the divisions of the year by months, the Polynesians counted by twelve and thirteen months, the former obtaining in the Tonga, Samoan and Hawaiian groups, the latter in the Marquesan and Society groups. Each month consisted of thirty days. It is known that the Hawaiians, who counted twelve months of thirty days each, intercalated five days at the end of the month Welehu, about the 20th December, which were tabu days, dedicated to the festival of Lono, after which the new year began with the first day of the month Makalii, which day was properly called Maka-hiki (equivalent to “commencement”) and afterwards became the conventional term for a year in the Hawaiian, Marquesan and Society groups. There is evidence that the Marquesans at one time counted the year by the lunar months and called it a puni, a circle, a round, a revolution, but how they managed either this or the year of thirteen months to correspond with the divisions by seasons or the solar year I am not informed, Tah. Teeri sometimes dropped.