High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pa?ao is either a figure from a Hawaiian legend or a historical character. He is said to have been a high priest from Kahiki, specifically "Wawau" and "'Upolu." 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. "Wawau" and "'Upolu" point to actual places in the Society Islands, Samoa, and/or Tonga, although Hawaiian scholars and royal commentators consistently claim Pa'ao came from either Samoa or Tahiti, or even that he was a Tahitian resident of Samoan origin. King Kalakaua, in his "Legends and Myths of Hawai'i," clearly defined the lineage of "Tahitian" chiefs and those aristocrats and priests descended from "Samoa" (i.e. Pa'ao and Pili). Accounts recorded by Mary Kawena Puku'i, David Malo, Abraham Fornander, Kanuikaikaina, and other custodians of Hawaiian lore support the notion that Pili and Pa'ao came from the islands...

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