Moʻokūʻauhau
The lineage
In Hawaiʻi you are not what you claim. You are who you can name.
A genealogy is a chant, not a certificate.
Moʻokūʻauhau is the Hawaiian recitation of descent — the line of people through whom something reached you. It is how authority was established, and it is checkable. Here is hers.
Kupuna · Molokaʻi
Tūtūwahine Kawaiolamanaloapaʻakaula
Her grandmother, of the island of Molokaʻi — home of the Kahuna Kaula. The practice as it was kept at home, in Hawaiian, in a family that had never stopped doing it.
Mother
Auntie Kuʻualohaemaliakalawaianui
Who taught her hoʻoponopono as a child — not as a teaching, but as the ordinary way the family set things right when something went wrong.
Teacher
Kahuna Morrnah Nālamakū Simeona
1913–1992. Kahuna lapaʻau, named a Living Treasure of Hawaiʻi in 1983, and the person who carried hoʻoponopono to the wider world. Kāhealani studied under her directly.
Initiator
Kahuna Papa K Kepilino
1929–2008. Of the Pele lineage, seven generations from Kamehameha I. He gave Kāhealani the Hoʻomanamana initiation — the Sacred Breath of Hā — one week before he died. That breath is what she carries and what she transmits.
Council
One of eleven
She is one of a council of eleven elders chosen, initiated and given the duty of offering an ancestral blessing to the world.
Now
Her daughter. Her granddaughter.
Both are in the photographs on this site. The line does not end with Kāhealani — and through the certification track, it does not end with her family either.
Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau
These photographs were made at Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau — the place of refuge.
Anyone who reached it was absolved and could return home. That is what the practice is for.