232 Fornander Collection of Ilaivaiian Folk-lore. 



Kaulu's hands then asked: "What is it?" Kanln replied: "The npper jaw, hold 

 it up; the lower jaw, hold it down." Louokaeho's forehead was thus made fast to the 

 ground; the ohia trees and the grass grew over him and Lonokaeho was killed on that 

 famous hill of Olomana, which stands to this day. 



Kaulu and Kaeha then lived together until the death of Kaeha, when Kauln took 

 unto himself a wife, Kekele by name. Kekele was a very handsome woman whose 

 breath and skin were as sweet as the inamoua.' She was a very quiet woman. Her 

 favorite flowers and vines were the hala, maile, ieie and all the fragrant leaves. When 

 she retired at night she used to sleep with her hala wreaths and would wear them until 

 they were dried up; therefore the hala at Kekele was planted for her and it grows to 

 this day. They lived as husband and wife until their death without having any children. 



Legend of Hoamakeikekula. 



HOAMAKEIKEKULA was a very beautiful woman and was very pleasant to 

 look upon. Her skin was like the covering of the young banana shoot;' her 

 eyes were like the weleweka ' blossom and her form was erect and faultless. 

 Hooleipalaoa was the father, and Pili was the mother, and the land of [Hoamakeikekula's] 

 birth was Oioiapaiho in Kohala. Hooleipalaoa and Pili were of very high chief rank of 

 Kohala in ancient time. Pili conceived and gave birth to a son Waikuaala by name. 

 After he was grown up Pili again conceived and gave birth to the faultless one, Hoamake- 

 ikekula. Hoamakeikekula upon her birth was in the form of an ala ( taro)," and not having 

 human form was thrown aside with a lot of sugar-cane trash by Pili the mother. 



Makapailu, the mother of Pili who was a great fortune-teller, in a vision saw the 

 spirit of Hoamakeikekula standing before her; and on being asked: "What does this 

 beautiful 3foung woman, whom I have not seen before, want?" Hoamakeikekula 

 answered: "I am your granddaughter who has been thrown away by your daughter 

 Pili. I am the younger child, next to Waikuaala, therefore I want you to come for 

 me. I am in a pile of sugar-cane trash in the form of a taro bulb. Make haste or I 

 shall be devoured by dogs." When Makapailu heard this call from her grandchild, 

 she rose and started on her journey, weeping. When Makapailu arrived at the pile of 

 sugar-cane trash, she looked it over and lo she beheld a small rainbow in a thick fog, 

 which moved toward her until it stood in her very presence. As she kept gazing there- 

 on, her eyes grew dim and after a while she closed them. When she looked again she 

 saw a taro bulb; she took it up and wrapped it in a red kapa' and returned home. 

 Upon arriving at her home, she told her husband, Hawaimake by name of what she 



'/«a)«o«fl, a table delicacy from pounded kukui nuts. quorum), tough and stringy; not a stone, as readily 



= The banana bud, for smoothness, was the ideal of comes to mind The former might be seized by hungry 



flesh condition to the Hawaiian mind; no skin could be flogs while the hitter would have no attraction, 



smoother, nor iirmer. 'This wrapping of />«/(-o/;«;to/;«, a noiii colored kapa, 



^IVehuvcka, velvet, borrows an introduced modern was likely one of the /«;«., or skirts of the grandmother, 



term for an ancient setting. generally worn m several tolds. 



^Ala, a variety or species of taro {Colocasia anti- 



