Nā Inoa Hōkū: Hawaiian and Pacific star names
3rd edition
by Rubellite Johnson, John Mahelona and Clive Ruggles, edited by Clive Ruggles
Supplementary online materials
Additional Hawaiian resources
This segment of the supplementary materials is downloadable as a PDF file. It contains two sections that could not be fitted into the printed book:
- A transcription and translation of a series of articles by Joseph M. Poepoe entitled ”Moolelo Hawaii Kahiko” that were published in the newspaper Ka Naʻi Aupuni during 1906; and
- Further installments of Haho’s “Moolelo Kahiko no Hawaii” published in the newspaper Ka Hoku o Hawaii during 1929.
These pages are formatted in the same way as pages from the printed book, enumerated S.1–S.33, with footnotes enumerated from S.1 onwards. As in the printed book, JKM’s interpretation of the Hawaiian text, with added diacritical marks, is shown alongside his new, independent translation, developed in consultation with CR.
Poepoe 1906
The first three of these articles describe the “stars of the first class” in Kamohoʻula’s method of astrology or astronomy, containing slightly different details from those that are documented in §2.2.7. The remainder contain a description of some of the star information contained in the Genealogical History of Kanalu, which seems to have been obtained independently of Benjamin K. Nāmakaokeahi’s 30-part serialization published five years earlier in Ka Nupepa Kuokoa (see §2.3).
Haho: the remaining installments
The file contains the following sections:
§2.4.6 The 54th installment (ctd)
- The first part of this installment (Haho 1929e) is included in the printed book. Verses 14–18 are repeated here, followed by the remainder of the installment which focuses upon seasonal indications, activities, and prognostications associated with each month of the year. The month names in v.19–33 parallel the male month-stars in Manuokekula’s genealogy (see §2.2.3) although presented with a different starting point and with different wives.
§2.4.7 The 55th installment
- This article (Haho 1929f), the 1st installment of Chapter V, “Concerning the divisions of time”, and the 55th installment of the whole series, appeared in the 10 September 1929 issue of Ka Hoku o Hawaii.
- This installment concludes the segment on seasonal indications, activities, and prognostications associated with each month of the year and commences a new one on activities and prognostications associated with each day of the month.
§2.4.8 The 56th installment
- This article (Haho 1929g), the 2nd installment of Chapter V, “Concerning the divisions of time”, and the 56th installment of the whole series, appeared in the 17 September 1929 issue of Ka Hoku o Hawaii.
- This installment continues the segment on activities and prognostications associated with each day of the month.
§2.4.9 The 57th installment
- This article (Haho 1929h), the 3rd installment of Chapter V, “Concerning the divisions of time” plus the 1st installment of Chapter VI, “Concerning the year”, and the 57th installment of the whole series, appeared in the 24 September 1929 issue of Ka Hoku o Hawaii.
- This installment concludes the segment on activities and prognostications associated with each day of the month.
After this point, Haho moves on to the days of the week, where he attempts to draw comparisons between “Hawaiian weekdays” and the Christian ones, and then proceeds to a description of the four-month Makahiki festival, which is well known from other sources.
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