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Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 3 (of 3)

Note 77 — PREFACE. (continued 5)

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In building a temple for the use of the people, it was not constructed exactly like that of the chiefs. The chiefs had large temples, and the people of several districts, or an island, built them. A temple was constructed with a name for each division from the exterior to the interior. Outside of the temple it had a certain name called the kipapa (pavement); inside of the kipapa was the drum house, and further in from this place were the pebbles,77 which was nearer the paehumu, and still further in was the kamana, the paehumu78 itself; and coming to a higher place in the temple was the moi79 which was equal to the mounting division of the anuu. It was customary in the large temples of the chiefs that two compartments were set apart,80 one for the king at a certain place, and one for the priest at a certain place in which he observed the ordinances of the order of priesthood.

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