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Hapakuka Hewahewa (died 1837 or October 20, 1848) was the kahuna nui (high priest) of King Kamehameha I and his successor Kamehameha II, whom he supported in the abolition of the kapu system and the Ancient Hawaiian religion

Born in the late 18th century,
 * Pages: 78, 85, 121, 187, 213, 291
 * Holo-'ae: Kahuna for Kalaniopuu, 78; his grandchildren, 85; advises Kamehameha, 121.
 * Hewahewa: 291; grandchild of Holo-'ae, 85; son of Pu'ou, 187; kahuna, 213
 * Pu'ou: grandchild of Holo-'ae, 85; father of Hewahewa, 187.

Hewahewa took the Christian name Hapakuka or Habakuke, which was Hawaiianized for Habakkuk.


 * Mid-Pacific magazine on later life as convert

Some sources said he died in 1837.
 * he died early in 1837: Sandwich Island Gazette, March 4, 1837), he lived outside Honolulu

He died in October 20, 1848.

In 1893, Nathaniel Bright Emerson remembered Hewahewa "as a silent and wrinkled old man, who lived in a retired valley in Waialua, Island of Oahu, about the year 1848."

J. K. Josepa, of Hana, was a descendant of Hewahewa's sister five generations removed.

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