Legend of Kepakailiula. 



CHAPTER I. 



KEPAKAILIULA' was boru in Keaau, Puna, Hawaii, in the form originally of a 

 chicken egg. His father was Ku and his mother was Hina/ Kuaikalolo and 

 Aiakoake were the elders^ of Kepakailiula. Kiinoho and Kiihele"* were the 

 brothers of Hina. All Kiinoho did was to sit in one place and very seldom moved 

 around; he was, however, a very great fortune teller and could predict coming events 

 that happen in the very near future as well as events afar off. All that Kiihele did 

 was to travel. He was a great runner and could make the circuit of Hawaii in one day, 

 starting from home in the morning and arriving home before sunset of the same day. 

 These people were chiefs of the district of Puna, of very high rank, as were their an- 

 cestors before them. 



One night Kiinoho had a dream, wherein he was instructed by a spirit as follows: 

 "You two must go to Paliuli and live there, you and Kiihele; you will find all your 

 needs supplied without fatigue." Kiinoho dreamed the same thing for three nights 

 before he spoke of it to Kiihele. Kiihele was, however, very indifferent about the matter 

 and did not believe in what Kiinoho told him. Shortly after this they both had the 

 same dream repeated to them. At daylight they talked the matter over and decided 

 that they must accept the invitation and go and live in Paliuli. They then made their 

 preparations and procured certain things by the /aii (four hundred), such as hogs, awa, 

 fish, fowls, kapas and malos. That night they retired early and at the second crowing 

 of the cock in the early dawn, while it was still dark, they got up and started for Pali- 

 uli without the knowledge of their sister or people. 



It is said in this story that this was the first time that Paliuli was found by man, 

 through the direction of the gods. Afterwards it was again taken away from man by 

 the gods and it has been hidden ever since. 



Upon their arrival at Paliuli,' they looked and saw that it was a very good land, 

 flat, fertile and well filled with many things desired by man; the ohias were as large as 

 breadfruit; they saw a fish pond within the land stocked with all kinds of fish of the 

 sea with the exception of the whale and the shark, so they made their home there. 

 They began to cultivate the soil, raised different animals until the place was filled with 

 everything imaginable. The sugar-cane grew until it fell over and rose again,'' the 

 bananas fell scattering,' the hogs grew until the tusks were long; the chickens until 

 their spurs were long and sharp; and the dogs until their backs were broadened out. 



One day Kiihele said to Kiinoho: "How queer of us to care for all these things! 

 Who is going to eat them?" Kiinoho replied: "Our son Kepakailiula. Let us go and 



' A'c-/>(7^rt-;7/-K/rt, the red-skinned paka. ^Paliuli, the Hawaiian Paradise, located in certain 



-Hina, the favorite feminine character of Hawaiian legends as in Puna, Hawaii, as it does here, 



story. 'Cane of luxuriant growth that lias bent over and 



5 Not shown whether brother or sister. curved upward. 



'Names indicating a stay-at-home, Kiinoho, and a 'Bananas fell, or dropped, scattering from the bunch 



traveler, Kiihele. through ripeness. 

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