2024年11月6日 · Keōpūolani, another of Kamehameha I’s wives, was the highest ranking chief of the ruling family in the kingdom during her lifetime. She was a niʻaupiʻo chief, and looked upon as divine; her kapu, equal to those of the gods. (Mookini) Giving up the ʻaikapu (and with it the kapu system) meant her traditional power and rank would be lost.

"Kapu" used on a "no trespassing" sign. Kapu is the ancient Hawaiian code of conduct of laws and regulations. The kapu system was universal in lifestyle, gender roles, politics and religion. An offense that was kapu was often a capital offense, but also often denoted a threat to spiritual power, or theft of mana. Kapus were strictly enforced. Breaking …

The kapu system was a foundational set of laws in ancient Hawaiian society, serving as a complex framework of taboos and decrees that governed daily life, religious practices, and social order. ... This act in 1819, known as the ‘Ai Noa (free eating), directly challenged the religious and social order that had governed Hawaiian life for ...

2021年10月12日 · Two tables were set up, one for the men and the other for the women. Liholiho circled the tables with seeming indecision, then sat down abruptly with the women and began to eat. Surprised onlookers exclaimed, “‘Ai noa, ‘ai noa!” Following the feast, Liholiho pronounced the end of the kapu and ordered the destruction of all heiau.

Ai Kapu. The ʻAi kapu was the kapu system's law over contact between men and women. "Many aliʻi obtained their power through this system, and then would give thanks to the god of politics Ku." ʻAi means to eat and Kapu means sacred. This law is based on a legend about the sky god.

2020年5月26日 · Monono and her husband supported the old, ancient way of the 'Ai Kapu. The warriors who supported the new system had guns, while the warriors who supported the old had spears and stones. During the battle, Manono's husband got shot and killed. Manono picked up her husband's spear and continued to fight by the side of the warriors who wanted to ...

2020年10月20日 · It seems your treatment of the `ai kapu and the `ai noa which took place in 1819 was too short an analysis of this historical event which changed the course of Hawaii’s history. I speak not due to the lack of details of the circumstance and the event but for a lack of inquiry into the motivations of the parties.

2018年2月1日 · [Written for the Peoples of Hawai’i section 1/18] 1819-1821 ‘Ai Noa The Overthrow of the Kapu. rb 2018. BACK IN TIME: Kamehameha becomes Ari’i ai Moi for Kohala-Kona in 1782 [Note this is 4 years after Cook’s arrival/death at Kealakekua at the hands of Kamehameha’s dad] on the death [which he instigated] of his cousin Keoua, who through his link with Kewala’o was technically ...

The ai kapu—the eating taboo—was also severe; women were forbidden to eat bananas, for example, among other things. But the kapu had endured for centuries. It ordered Hawai‘i society, it ...

2012年11月26日 · Editor's Notes #2: Pay particular attention to the fact that many things in Hawaiian society, culture, language are dichotomies, opposites, diametric opposites #3: The most widely known kapu is the one that required men and women to eat separately, or `ai kapu. `Ai kapu were the laws that regulated food distribution, preparation and consumption `Ai kapu forbade men and women from eating ...