Talk:Royal Mausoleum (Mauna ʻAla)

Kapena's remarks about the Pohukaina tomb
His Excellency, J. H. Kapena, Minister of Foreign Relations, on the occasion of the laying of the Cornerstone of The Royal Palace, Honolulu, in 1879, said:


 * "Here in the premises of Pokukaina was erected the tomb of the departed chiefs and at the entrance of the sacred place was placed the body of John Young, one of Kamehameha's intimate friends. In order that the spot may not be forgotten where a tomb once stood, King Kalakaua has caused a mound to be raised there, crowned with ferns and flowers in memory of those who slept beneath it. Doubtless the memory is yet green of that never to be forgotten night when the remains of the departed chiefs were removed to the Royal Mausoleum in Nuuanu Valley. Perhaps the world had never witnessed a procession more weird and solemn than that which conveyed the bodies of the chiefs through the streets, accompanied on each side by thousands of people until the mausoleum was reached, the entire scene and procession lighted by large kukui torches, while surrounding darkness brought in striking relief the coffins on their biers. Truly we cannot forget the weirdness, the solemnity and the affecting scene afforded by that strange midnight procession."

2013

 * http://files.hawaii.gov/dlnr/meeting/minutes/130426-minutes.pdf

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The result of the move request was: Non-contested move buidhe 05:24, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Mauna ʻAla → Royal Mausoleum (Mauna ʻAla) or Royal Mausoleum at Mauna ʻAla–

Suggestion to retain word "Royal Mausoleum" and "Mauna ʻAla" in similar vein to Royal Mausoleum (Norway). Mauna ʻAla or Maunaala was originally the name for the ground in the Nuʻuanu that the Royal Mausoleum was build upon not the mausoleum itself. Here is an 1856 mention of Maunaala showing that it predated the construction of the Mausoleum. It was probably the name of a traditional Hawaiian land division maybe an ʻili. The Royal Mausoleum's name was Ka ilina o nā aliʻi in Hawaii and was written in official reports of the monarchy as Ilina Alii. Many 19th-century Hawaiian newspapers distinguishes the land and the mausoleum that it sat on. See https://nupepa-hawaii.com/tag/maunaala/ for translation of contemporary Hawaiian language articles. Many sources called it the Royal Mausoleum at Mauna ʻAla as well. KAVEBEAR (talk) 04:02, 28 March 2020 (UTC) —Relisting. Jerm (talk) 20:28, 6 April 2020 (UTC) —Relisting. buidhe 05:24, 18 April 2020 (UTC)


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