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Pu'ukohola Heiau National Historic Site
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A Cultural History of Three Traditional Hawaiian Sites on the West Coast of Hawai'i Island
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Pu'ukohola Heiau  

Did You Know?
Aa Hawaiian prophet, Kapoukahi, supposedly prophesied that "war shall cease on Hawaii when one shall come and shall be laid above on the altar of Pu'u-kohola, the house of god." In Hawaiian, Pu'ukohola is translated as "hill of the whale."
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Last Updated: September 18, 2006 at 13:22 EST