Legend of Kaulu. 



Kaulu Seeks His Kind Brother. — Encounters Ghosts and Other Obstacles. — 

 He Drinks up the Sea. — Awakes Makalii for Aid. — Kaaona Foiled. — Shark 

 Kalakeenuiakane. — The Sea Restored. — Of Haumea. — Lonokaeho of Eight 

 Foreheads Overcome. — Mokolii, the Wizard, Killed. 



KAULU was a very young boy who once lived in Kailua, Koolau, Oahu. His 

 father was Kukaohialaka.^ At the birth of Kauhi,' he was in the form of a 

 piece of cord. He had two older brothers. Kaholeha was the name of the 

 brother who loved him, while the other brother did not like him at all. in fact he hated 

 him. Some time after this the brother that thought a good deal of Kaulu was taken away 

 by Kane and Kanaloa,'' to the island of Kuaihelani,* where he was kept. Being attached 

 to this brother, because of his great kindness, Kaulu concluded that he would go to Kuai- 

 helani in search of him. On the voyage Kaulu encountered several obstacles.^ First he 

 encountered large and terrible waves ; secondly, he encountered the long waves ; thirdly, 

 he encountered Kuilioloa; fourthly he encountered Keaumiki and Keauka, and fifthly he 

 encountered the gods or ghosts. 



When Kaulu arrived in the land of Kuaihelani, he went up to a loiilii" palm tree 

 and hid in the leaves. That evening he saw his brother coming out of the house, so he 

 went to meet him. Kaulu then asked him: "How are you getting along?" Kaholeha 

 replied: "I am not happy." Kaulu again asked him: "What do you all do in the eve- 

 ning?" The brother replied: "We drink awa." "Yes," said Kaulu, "when it is time 

 to drink awa, you tell the gods that they can go ahead and drink their's and that you 

 will take your's later. When it comes to your turn to drink awa, you order the gods 

 not to talk, and when they are quiet then you call out to me as follows: 'Say, my god, 

 here is our awa.' I will then answer back: 'Drink it. I will take the intoxicating por- 

 tion.' " The brother returned into the house and in time carried out the orders given 

 hiuL When the gods heard the reply from without, they said: "What a loud voiced god 

 you have. It even calls differently." This was continued so often that Kane and Kana- 

 loa became vexed and so they sent their messengers to fly up to Makalii' and inquire of 

 him of the nature of this thing, whether it is a human being or a god. 



When the messengers came in the presence of Makalii, they informed him of the 

 nature of their mission. He replied: "The voice is not the voice of a god; it is the 

 voice of a man, Kaulu by name." When the messengers arrived back in the presence of 

 Kane and Kanaloa, they reported what they had been told by Makalii. When the two 



'This is the name of the god of dancers, represented 'The hoa paio obstacles were kupiias, demigods, and 



by a branch of the ohia lehua, a species of ohia bearing ghosts. The Keaumiki and Keauka mentioned were 



beautiful blossoms. Laka, a god or goddess, was the gods of the tides, ebb and flow, 



presiding deity of the hula. .^he hulu palms were of two varieties, known as 



-Kaulu, born as a piece of cord, resembles the birth loiihi Iclo, or hawane from its nuts, and loulu hiwa. 



of^ Pallia, of Mahinai, daughter of Hina and Kana. 'Makalii, a veteran in the heavens, credited in this 



'Kane and Kanaloa, two of the prmcipal deities. case with more discerning power than Kane and Ka- 



*The mythical hidden land of Kane. naloa. 

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