336 Foniandcr Collection of Hazvaiian Folk-lore. 



You shall string them, I shall wear them. 

 Arise. My greetings to you. 



The sisters of Pele, Hiiaka and the others, said to her: "Wake up, why keep on 

 lying down, and look at that handsome man standing there on the heights of Akanikolea. 

 Take a look at him, for yon can tell on sight whether it is a hig man, a small man, a long 

 man, a short man, a good man or a sinful man." Pele made reply: "That hog that you are 

 mistaking for a man is not a man ; that is Kamapuaa the hog grandson of Kamaunuaniho, 

 the son of Kahikiula and Hina." The sisters again said: "That handsome man stand- 

 ing there on Akanikolea, that you say is a hog? You are an adept in lying. We have 

 seen hogs in the lowlands of Puna, having the body of a hog, feet of a hog, head of a 

 hog, eyes of a hog, ears of a hog, snout of a hog and everything else that belongs to a 

 hog; but nothing like that fellow with a himian form standing there." Pele replied: 

 "That is a hog; that is not a human being which you see standing there on Akanikolea." 



Kamapuaa said to his gods : "Say, I believe I am recognized by those people." 

 The gods replied, trying to deceive him : "No, they have not recognized you." Kama- 

 puaa then again chanted: 



You do not know that I am Kama. 



Perchance it is Kama of the mountains that you know, 



On the top of the mountain, 



In the forest, 



In the kindling wood, 



At the trunk of the tree. 



Perchance that is the Kama you know.'^" 



Pele then rejjlied: "I know you, for you have just come from Kahiki. You have 

 fought Lonokaeho and have killed him, and Kowea became your father-in-law. You 

 have lived with his daughter; you two have a child. When my fire reached out 

 and pinched your eyes you left and came here. That is the reason you have come; to 

 put my fire out and to fight me." Pele then chanted: 



Thou art indeed Kama 



The man of the high cliffs, 



Of the low lying cliflfs, 



Of the steep cliffs, 



Of the cliffs of the rolling stones, 



Where the kalokalo'^^ birds roam, 



Making it cold in the uplands of Kaliuwaa, 



For Hiwa is thine 



And thou art Kama 



The hog-son of Hina and her husband, 



The hog-grandson of Kamaunuaniho. 



Of your pen, Lelepa, 



Of your belly, a passenger belly, '^- 



°°This mete of Kamapuaa's seeks to imply that Pele home at high elevations, like the koae, or bos'ii bird, is 



knew him otily in spirit. in a region of cold temperature. 



"'This likely has reference to some bird traits or hab- '^Referring to the Kaliuwaa episode where his forces 



its, there being no known birds of this name whose climbed up his body and escaped. 



