Paʻao

Paʻao is either a figure from a Hawaiian legend or a historical character. According to Hawaiian tradition and folklore, he is said to have been a high priest from Kahiki, specifically "Wewaʻu" and "'Uporu." In Hawaiian prose and chant, the term "Kahiki" is applied in reference to any land outside of Hawai'i, although the linguistic root is conclusively derived from Tahiti. "Wewaʻu" and "Uporu" point to actual places in the Society Islands, Samoa, and/or Tonga, and Hawaiian scholars and royal commentators consistently claim Paʻao came from either Samoa or Tahiti, or even that he was a Tahitian priest with properties in both Tonga and Samoa.

King Kalākaua, in his Legends and Myths of Hawai'i, theorized the lineage of "Tahitian" chiefs and those aristocrats and priests descended from "Samoa" (i.e. Paʻao and Pilikaʻaiea). Accounts recorded by Mary Kawena Pukui, David Malo, Abraham Fornander, Kanuikaikaina, and other custodians of Hawaiian lore support the notion that Pili and Pa'ao came from the islands known today as Samoa.

Other accounts provided by Samuel M. Kamakau, John Papa ʻĪʻī, Solomon Peleioholani, Teuira Henry, Stephen L. Desha, and a number of other scholars argue that both Pili and Pa'ao immigrated from the Society Islands or Tahiti. The island names of Taha'a and Borabora are rather recent as according to Tahitian oral history. The traditional name of the island now known as Taha'a originally was Vevaʻu and the traditional name of Borabora, in the ancient times was called ʻUporu. It is also well known in Tahiti that the island Ra'iatea, notorious for it's religious practices was originally called Havaiʻi.

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