"Olopana, The Brother"
(ruling chief of Waipi'o, Hawai'i)
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A chief of Waipi'o Valley, Hawai'i. Olopana led a voyage to "Tahiti of the Golden Haze," the first in a saga of ancient voyages spanning three generations.

Behold, Hawai'i! An island, a people. The people of Hawai'i are the children of Tahiti!

Thus begins the trimphant chant of Kamahu'alele, navigator of the canoe of high chief Mo'ikeha, composed when he first sighted the mountains of Hawai'i after a long return voyage from Tahiti.

Mo'ikeha, with his brother Olopana and their mutual wife Lu'ukia, had sailed from Waipi'o Valley, Hawai'i to 'Tahiti of the Golden Haze,' not Tahiti Island but the leeward Tahitian islands of Ra'iatea, Bora Bora, and Huahine. Relatives welcomed them and gave them lands. Olopana went off on other adventures; some say he settled on Tahiti.

Page 19, Ancient Hawaii