Purpose of Papakü Makawalu 

Papakü Makawalu is designed to convey intelligence and knowledge of the Hawaiian universe and everything within it, to the attention of Hawaiian practitioners, educators and eventually to the greater public whose interest lies in studying and maintaining Hawaiian dogma.

The Kumulipo exhibits the fact that our ancestors systematically arranged their intellectual information. Today we investigate their system of knowledge and specialties to see through their eyes the universe in which they lived. Papakü Makawalu is the means to elevate, titillate and expand our native intelligence.

“Fragments of Hawaiian History” was a book by John Papa ‘I’i. During the twentieth century Hawaiian history and cultural information were taught from one generation to the next in fragments. We, school teachers, hula teachers, parents, and grandparents, were recipients of fragmented information and in the same way, information was disseminated. We did not know that what we received and taught was but a minuscule part of a great wealth of knowledge.

Papakü Makawalu is a way of learning a diminutive component while having some perspective of the full extent of the whole. Lines that separate specializations are traversed and voids of connectivity are filled because Papakü Makawalu is a natural process of Hawaiians that show their intuition of the world. The purpose of Papakü Makawalu is to return to this high level of known existence.

Papaku Makawalu
a project of Edith Kanakaole Foundation
1500 Kalanianaole Ave
211 Laehala St
Hilo, HI 96720
United States

Tel +1.808.961.5242
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