Keala a Ka Lua

Kii: Ku'ialuaopuna

Kaela Garnett Enos Clark, daughter of Keala Enos, was a haumana of ʻŌlohe Lua Richard Likeke Kekumuikawaiokeola Paglinawan, ʻŌlohe Lua Moses Kalauokalani and ʻŌlohe Ha’a Noelani Mahoe of Pakuialua. Pākuʻialua was established in the early 1990’s to promote and cultivate the Hawaiian fighting art of Lua by Richard Paglinawan, who was the head ʻōlohe lua. After the passing of ʻOlohe Lua Richard Paglinawan, Keala took a break from lua and later became a haumana of Ku’ialuaopuna, a pā lua established on Hawaii Island about 2005, under the guidance of ʻōlohe Lua Richard Paglinawan.

Keala Clark, was at the level of Mano Kihikihi, in her training at the time of her ‘Olohe, Likeke Paglinawan’s passing.

Keala was given the title of Lau’au’a by the ʻŌlohe Lua of Ku’ialuaopuna because of her great knowledge in lua and Hawaiian spiritual culture.

Lau’au’a is “to withhold; stingy. Fig. to withhold or conceal strength, as a warrior (Malo 196, 203) or gambler; this may refer to the common tale motif of the idol hero who enters the battle only after his confederates are losing, as of Ka-welo, Pele, Panaʻewa”.

Ua hiki hiwahiwa ke ao i uka

Ke holo nei i ku’u maka

Kulu iho nei i ka pō

Aia ka ʻele i Kaʻala

’Ope’ope Pu’u Heleakalā i ka makani

Kū pāpū Puna i ka ua loku

Heahea ʻo Mauna Kapu

Ka Lau’au’a o Nānākuli

Ka Manō Kihikihi a ka lua

He pūkoʻa kani ʻāina

He alahele ho’i ʻole kāu

Ke ala loa i Pōhaku Kauaʻi

Mai nānā hope, ua pau ka ʻura

Pali kū o Palikea, ka u’i

’O Pālehua kahi pae

‘O Manawahua ke aliʻi

‘O Keala ke aloha lā

I ka lele wale aku nō, ‘a’ohe kahu

Ke ala hele hoʻi ʻole.

Ka ʻalā kepue, he mole o ka honua

Ka laumeki a ka lua

’Eli’eli kau mai i luna

‘Eli’eli kūlana ‘o ‘Ainaike

Ua ʻike nō a…

Esteemed are the clouds over the plains

Moving before my eyes

Night arrives, heavy are the eyes

Darkness abounds at Ka'ala

Heleakala is buffeted by the news

Puna stands unobstructed in the downpour

Mauna Kapu calls out

To the skilled one of Nānākuli

The fierce warrior of duality

A solid rock of the land

Yours is a one-way journey

The long path to the leaping place

Turn back no more

Erect is Palikea in youthful vigor

Pālehua is the boundary

Manawahua is the chief

Our love is to Keala

She travels on

The path of no return

The stone is a tap root

The spear of the skilled one

May a profound reverence alight

Profound is the land of Ainaike!

It is known to all..