lo Foniaudrr Collection of Haxvaiiau Folk-lore. 



In tlie tradition of Kauai, it is said Oahu and Kauai had one mother and had 

 different fathers. Because Ahukinialaa lived with Laamealaakona and Oahu was 

 born a wohi, then Laakapu lived with Laamealaakona and Kauai was born and this 

 is how the legend runs : When Laamealaakona first had the child-sickness when con- 

 ceiving Kauai, she was in the sacred house in the enclosure of the heiau ( temple) of 

 Nonea, and on a day of the month of INIakalii, the day in which the lightnings flashed 

 around this heiau, that was the day Kauai was born, and this is the king who united 

 with the royal line of Hawaii. And this is how the legend runs in the part concern- 

 ing Kat:ai in the mele commencing with verse 8: 



"From Laakapu who was a man, 

 From Laamealaakona a woman 

 Who sickened of the child conception, 

 Who sickened carrying the chief Nuupoki 

 At the sacred temple of Nonea 



During the lightning on the sacred night of Makalii. 

 Then was born Kauai, a chief, a prince, a kingly scion. 

 Of the chiefly cluster belonging to Hawaii; 

 The foremost head of all the islands." 



So in looking over the histories of Oahu and Kauai, it is true, it seems as if 

 they had one mother, for the voice indicates the resemblance. 



In the traditions of Niihau, Kaula and Nihoa, they had the same parents, 

 because Wanalia was the husband who lived with Hanalaa, a woman, and to them was 

 born Niihau, Kaula and Nihoa. They were triplets, and with them the mother 

 became barren. No islands were born afterwards. And the mele composed by 

 Kahaknikamoana should read like this, in verse lo: 



"Wanalia was the man 

 And Hanalaa was the woman; 

 Of them was born Niihau, a land, an island. 

 There were three children of them 

 Born in the same day; 

 Niihau, Kaula, ending with Nihoa. 

 The mother then conceived no more, 

 No other island appeared afterwards." 



In looking for stories of these islands it is shown in that mele composed by the 

 great historian, one of the chiefs' most renowned historians of Hawaii nei. But we 

 cannot certify to the absolute truth of the story ; there are several other stories very 

 much like these, but which one is the real truth it is hard to tell. In the story or 

 tradition of Wakea the origin of these islands is plainly told, and there are also meles 

 reciting the doings of Wakea with regard to the peopling of these islands. One of the 

 songs was composed by Pakui,' a historian and a famous composer of songs, and he 

 was classed among the high priests of the order of priesthood. 



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' There is a heiau in Manawai, Molokai, said to have been built and occupied by Pakui still to be seen. 



