# Hineuki

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**Hineuki** (also called **Hinakeʻuki** or simply **Hina**; *keuki* = "tantalizer") was a Hawaiian [noble lady](/source/Ali%CA%BBi_nui_of_Hawaii) and [Chiefess](/source/Ali%CA%BBi)[1] of the island of Hawaiʻi as the wife of [Kukohou](/source/Kukohou),[2] *Aliʻi Nui* of Hawaiʻi. She was named after the goddess [Hina](/source/Hina_(goddess)), who was one of the most important deities in the [religion](/source/Hawaiian_religion) of the [Ancient Hawaiians](/source/Ancient_Hawaii).

## Life

Lady Hineuki — named after Hina[3] — was a daughter of Aliʻiponi and his consort, Lady Hinamaileliʻi (Hinamaiheliʻi),[4] who was a daughter of Ko and his sister, Lady Hinaʻauamai — children of the Chief [Pilikaʻaiea](/source/Pilika%CA%BBaiea) (often simply called Pili) and his sister, Lady [Hina-au-kekele](/source/Hina-au-kekele). Pili was succeeded by the High Chief [Kukohou](/source/Kukohou), who was his descendant; Hineuki was Kukohouʻs maternal half-sister. Kukohou and Hineuki were [married](/source/Inbreeding), according to the customs of the Hawaiian chiefs, and their union was considered sacred. Their son was High Chief [Kaniuhu](/source/Kaniuhu),[5] a successor of his father, and through him, Hineuki was a grandmother of Chief [Kanipahu](/source/Kanipahu),[6] an ancestor of King [Kamehameha I](/source/Kamehameha_I), the first ruler of the [Kingdom of Hawaii](/source/Hawaiian_Kingdom).

The other husband of Hineuki was called Pokai;[7][8] his parents are not known today. Their child was High Chiefess [Alaʻikauakoko](/source/Ala%CA%BBikauakoko), *Aliʻi Wahine* of [Oahu](/source/Oahu) and Hawaiʻi—the mother of [Kalapana](/source/Kalapana_of_Hawai%CA%BBi), *Aliʻi* of Hawaiʻi, and [Kapae-a-Lakona](/source/Kapae-a-Lakona), *Aliʻi* of Oʻahu. Hineuki died in Hawaiʻi and she has been buried there.

## References

1. *Memoirs of the [Bernice Pauahi Bishop](/source/Bernice_Pauahi_Bishop) Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History*. Bishop Museum Press, 1917.

1. *Kepelino's Traditions of Hawaii* (2007). [Bishop Museum Press](/source/Bishop_Museum_Press). p. 192. On the page 192, the family tree of Kukohou is given.

1. Hinaʻs name was very popular amongst the chiefs in the time of Kukohou, likely because Hina was related to the Heavens and the [Moon](/source/Moon), and *lani* — a [Hawaiian](/source/Hawaiian_language) word for sky — was also used in the names of the chiefs.

1. Peleioholani, Solomon Lehuanui Kalaniomaiheuila (1906). *Genealogy of the Robinson family, and ancient legends and chants of Hawaii*. [Honolulu](/source/Honolulu) Bulletin Publishing Company, Ltd., 1908, Hawaii State Archives (photocopy). Translated into English by J. M. Poepoe.

1. [Sheldon Dibble](/source/Sheldon_Dibble). *History of the Sandwich Islands*. Press of the Mission Seminary.

1. [Edith Kawelohea McKinzie](/source/Edith_Kawelohea_McKinzie) (1986). *Hawaiian Genealogies: Extracted from Hawaiian Language Newspapers*.

1. *Ka Nonanona* (newspaper). 1842. p. 49. "Mookuauhau". Reprinted in the work by [Edith Kawelohea McKinzie](/source/Edith_Kawelohea_McKinzie).

1. [Family of the Lady Hineuki.](http://www.kekoolani.org/pages/kekoolani%20genealogy%20database%20(paf)/pafg09.htm#161) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20200806132449/https://kekoolani.org/Pages/Kekoolani%20Genealogy%20Database%20(PAF)/pafg09.htm#161) 2020-08-06 at the Wayback Machine "*Hinaakeuki (Hineuki) was born about 1318 in the Ulu-[Hema](/source/Hem%C4%81_(mythology)) Genealogy (Big Island). She married Pokai. The genealogist S.L.K. Pelioholani calls her Hinaakeuki*."

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