The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 569 pages of information about The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai.

The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 569 pages of information about The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai.

The brothers are restored to life and the hero hands over to them his wife and kingdom and lives humbly.  When he woos Pele and Hiiaka, his wife drives them over seas until they come to Maunaloa, Hawaii.  Then the brothers leave for Kuaihelani, and Aukelenuiaiku desires also to see his native land again.  There he finds the lizard grandmother overgrown with coral and his parents gone to Kauai.

[Footnote 1:  Compare Westervelt’s Gods and Ghosts, p. 66.]

2.  HINAAIKAMALAMA

Kaiuli and Kaikea are gods who change into Paoo fish and live in the bottom of the sea in Kahikihonuakele.  They have two children, the girl Hinaluaikoa and the boy Kukeapua.  These two have 10 children, Hinaakeahi, Hinaaimalama, Hinapaleaoana, Hinaluaimoa, all girls, Iheihe, a boy, Moahelehaku, Kiimaluhaku, and Kanikaea, girls, and the boys Kipapalaula and Luaehu.  As Hinaaikamalama is the most beautiful she is placed under strict taboo under guard of her brother Kipapalaula.  He is banished for neglect of duty, crawls through a crack at Kawaluna at the edge of the great ocean.  The king treats him kindly, hence he returns and gets his sister to be the king’s wife.  In her calabash, called Kipapalaulu, she carries the moon for food and the stars for fish.

King Konikonia and Hinaaikamalama have 10 children, the youngest of whom, the boy Maikoha, is found to be guilty of sacrilege and banished.  He goes to Kaupo and changes into the wauke plant.  His sisters coming in search of him, land at Oahu and turn into fish ponds—­Kaihuopalaai into Kapapaapuhi pond at Ewa; Kaihukoa into Kaena at Waianae; Kawailoa into Ihukoko at Waialua, and Ihukuuna into Laniloa at Laie.  Kaneaukai, their brother, comes to look for them in the form of a log.  It drifts ashore at Kealia, Waialua, changes into a man, and becomes fish god for two old men at Kapaeloa.[1]

[Footnote 1:  The rock called Kaneaukai, “Man-floating-on-the-sea,” on the shore below Waimea, Oahu, is still worshiped with offerings.  The local story tells how two old men fish up the same rock three times.  Then they say, “It is a god,” and, in spite of the weight of the rock, carry it inshore and place it where it now stands and make it their fish god.  Thrum tells this, story, p. 250.]

3.  KAULU

Kukaohialaka and Hinauluohia live in Kailua, Oahu, with their two sons, Kaeha and Kamano.  A third, Kaulu, remains five years unborn because he has heard Kamano threaten to kill him.  Then he is born in the shape of a rope, and Kaeho puts him on an upper shelf until he grows into a boy.  Meanwhile Kaeha is carried away by spirits to Lewanuu and Lewalani where Kane and Kanaloa live, and Kaulu goes in search of him.  On the way he defeats and breaks into bits the opposing surfs and the dog Kuililoloa, hence surf and dogs remain small.  In the spirit land he fools the spirits, then visits the land where their food is raised, Monowaikeoo, guarded by Uweleki and

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