Priests and soothsayers are ranked with chiefs, whose
households, _aialo_, are made up of hangers-on of lower rank--courtiers
as distinguished from the low-ranking countrymen--_makaaina_--who remain
on the land. Chiefs of the highest rank, _niaupio_, claim descent within
the single family of a high chief. All high-class chiefs must claim
parentage at least of a mother of the highest rank; the low chiefs,
_kaukaualii_, rise to rank through marriage (Malo, p. 82). The _ohi_ are
perhaps the _wohi_, high chiefs who are of the highest rank on the
father's side and but a step lower on the mother's.]
[Footnote 12: With this judgment of beauty should be compared
Fornander's story of _Kepakailiula_, where "mother's brothers" search
for a woman beautiful enough to wed their protege, but find a flaw in
each candidate; and the episode of the match of beauty in the tale of
_Kalanimanuia_.]
CHAPTER III
[Footnote 13: The building of a _heiau_, or temple, was a common means
of propitiating a deity and winning his help for a cause. Ellis records
(1825) that on the journey from Kailua to Kealakekua he passed at least
one _heiau_ to every half mile.
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