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Land section and a luakini (heiau where human sacrifices were offered) near Kalapana, Hawaiʻi, attributed to Pāʻao, a priest from Tahiti in about the thirteenth century; originally called ʻAhaʻula (sacred assembly). It was used by Kamehameha I and dedicated to his war god, Kūkāʻilimoku; it was also the last major temple where public worship was held. In one legend (HM 346; Wester-velt, 1964a:2–13), a young chief crossed through the smoke of the heiau (believed to be the shadow of the heiau god and hence taboo); he was killed by the Mū people and his bones thrown into the bone pit. His spirit told his father, the high chief of Kaʻū, who recovered the bones to give them proper burial or to resuscitate the son. Literally, red mouth.