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served in this world." And the servant of Pele will be his caretaker, who will lord 

 it over his stewards or even over his own body servants. When the sonl is living there, 

 shonld some one wish to see it, then this is the process: go with a servant of Pele, and 

 he will call by chanting one of the chants of that chief. 



Some say that should a person die and is buried at the edge of a river, or a 

 spring, or a watercourse, then his soul will enter another body such as a shark's, or 

 an eel's, or any other living body of the sea. Those that are buried by a body of fresh 

 water will enter that stream and become a large okiilickiilic or tailed-lizard; and if 

 buried on dry land, then they will enter the body of an owl, and such like. These 

 things which are entered by the souls of men become guides'- to their friends who are 

 living. This is what the soul which has entered these things would do: It would 

 proceed and enter his friend, and when it has possessed him, the soul would eat regu- 

 lar food until satisfied, then go back. And he would repeatedly do that. And this 

 friend, should he have any trouble on land, such as war, then the owl'^ would lead 

 him to a jilace of safety; and if in fresh water, the lizard and such like would keep 

 him safe; and if the trouble is in the ocean, the shark and such like would care for 

 him. This is one reason why a great many people are prohibited from eating many 

 things. 



Another thing: The soul also lives on a dry plain after the death of the body ; and 

 ^such ])laces are called ka Iciiia a ka iiltanc (the casting-ofif i)lace of the soul). This 

 name applies to wherever in Hawaii nei people lived. Following are the places where 

 the souls live : For the people of Niihau, Kapapakiikii, and a second one is at Mauloku, 

 Lehua ; for the Kauai people, at Hanapepe; for the Oahu people at Kaimalolo; for the 

 Molokai people, at the boundary of Koolau and Kona, at the district of Wainene; for 

 the Lanai people, at Hokunui ; for the Maui people, there are two places, at Kekaa and 

 the plains of Kamaomao; and for the Hawaii people, there are three places, at Hilo, 

 at Waipio, and at Palilua. All these places are known as the casting-oiT places of 

 souls. '^ Should a soul get to any of these places it will be impossible for it come 

 back again. 



Still another thing: Should the body die, the soul may appear as if in the flesh; 

 then there becomes no more night to the soul, only light. The chiefs have a separate 

 ])lace to dwell in, and the warriors have a different place. Sports are carried on there 

 as during real life, such as throwing the spear, guessing the hidden uo'a,^^ coasting 

 down hill, surfing, fencing, wrestling; there is plenty of food, food which needed no 

 cultivation, such as potatoes, taro, ape, etc. ; and because of this people think when 

 the body is dead the following should be provided: Food, fish, tobacco, water, steel on 

 which to strike flint and obtain fire, o-o, spear, axe, knife; because they think the soul 

 will need these things to work with at that place. 



Another thing: Some people think that the soul has no abiding place, but only 



"Another point in the belief of life after death being "These various Soul's Leap localities make provision 



much the same as in this world. as the point of departure for the sou! at death in its 



"Guides in the form of ^UDiuihuas (ancestral gods) ''^'"'P 1° f'"'^ •'* auniakuas for guidance and conipanion- 



and iinihifilis (familiar spirits). ship, or failing such, to descend to the realm of Miln. 



"The owl was one of the most popular objects pos- "No'a, the game of hiding a stone under a cloth or 



sessing aumakua attributes. P'ece of kapa. 



