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Submitted by torwen on Monday, 15 July 2013  Page Views: 4787

Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Ulupō Heiau
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 19.076 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The West Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Kailua
Latitude: 21.385610N  Longitude: 157.752938W
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Ulupō Heiau
Ulupō Heiau submitted by torwen : Ulupō Heiau, stone platform (Vote or comment on this photo)
On the eastern edge of the Kawai Nui Marsh in Kailua, Oahu, Hawai’i sits the Ulupō Heiau. Its name means ‘night inspiration’ and all that is left of the second largest temple in Oahu is a huge stone platform and some stone features.

Since there has been no archaeological investigation or any scientific dating, the exact age is not known. Muriel Seto, Culture Chair of Hawaii's Thousand Friends and collector of oral histories says it goes back to around AD 900; its antiquity is also suggested by the mentioning of the menehune people (pre-Polynesian inhabitants of Hawai’i, often described as dwarfs) as responsible for the first stage of the heiau (SterlingSummer 1978, 233). A comparison with heiau on Maui, which have been radiocarbondated, points to a later date at around AD 1300 (Kolb 2006).

The Ulupō heiau began its life with the legendary menehune and later with high chiefs of Oahu, such as Kakuhihewa in the 15th century and Kuali’I in the 17th century. Ulupō had its peak of importance around 1750 when Kailua was the political seat of power for the district of Ko’olaupoko and the favoured residence of Oahu chiefs because of the fish pond (which is now the Kawai Nui Marsh) and the superb canoe landing point in the bay. After Oahu was conquered in the 1780s the heiau was abandoned. It was turned into a territorial park in 1954, restored in the early 1960s, and listed as State Monument on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

It probably started its life as a mapele heiau, but Kauli’i eventually turned it into a luakini heiau with an altar, an oracle tower (anu’u), thatched hale buildings and wooden images (ki’i). A nice comparison can be seen in the restored Hale O Lono heiau at Waimea Valley (built between AD 1470-1700).

The still very visible stone platform of the Ulupō heiau measures 42m x 54m and the outer walls are 9m high. In mass and volume of stones used in its construction it is even the largest heiau in Oahu. Some stones were brought over more than ten miles away, from Kualoa north of Kailua.

An important feature was the natural spring which was feeding the crops of taro, sweet potato, and sugar cane. Although Hawai'in religion is not officially practised anymore, one can still observe offerings laid down by worshippers, and there are regular ceremonies held at the heiau.

More at http://torwenb.wordpress.com/2013/07/15/the-ulupo-heiau-kaulua-hawaii/

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Ulupō Heiau
Ulupō Heiau submitted by torwen : Offerings laid down at the Ulupō heiau (Vote or comment on this photo)

Ulupō Heiau
Ulupō Heiau submitted by torwen : Looking sideways at the stone platform (Vote or comment on this photo)

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