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helo died and left Pele and Hiiaka. \\'Iii'e the}' were living together, and because 

 Pele continued the fire whereby Hiiaka could not get enough slee]), she (Hiiaka) said 

 to her older sister, "Why do you kindle the fire? 1 can't get enough sleep on account 

 of my back being heated by the fire. It is better that we let our younger sister go, 

 and let her find a place of residence." So Pele then let Kaohelo go. She went along 

 until she arrived in Koolau,*^ Oahu; Heeia" was a good-looking man of that time liv- 

 ing there, but he had died. When his soul saw her soul they greeted each other as 

 strangers do, and he took her to his home; passing the time pleasantly for a few 

 minutes, Heeia asked Kaohelo, "Where are you traveling to, and where did you come 

 from?" She replied, "Why, Hawaii is our place of residence with my elder sisters, 

 but T died. And because the back of my elder sister, Hiiaka. was heated with fire all 

 the time, she told our eldest sister to send me away, and that is why I have been trav- 

 eling to find a place where I might dwell." 



When Heeia heard these words of love from Kaohelo he was saddened, and his 

 whole body responded with sympathy and love for this woman. So he hastened to say. 

 "Why not then be my wife and let me be your husband?" The idea was pleasing to 

 the beautiful queen from the border of Kahiki, and they lived as man and wife. 



After they had lived for some time there was born to them a daughter, Waia- 

 lani, a beautiful and a good woman, better even than her mother. After they had lived 

 together for three years, she told her parents that she would go and bring Malulani 

 from Lanai. This was agreeable to the parents. As she went over to Hawaii, Hiiaka 

 said to Pele, "Say, here comes our niece." Pele replied, "Whose niece is she? Why 

 should I accord her recognition?" And this matter became a source of serious quarrel 

 between the two. When the niece arrived at the mouth of the crater, at the place called 

 Akanikolea, and looked down, she noticed her aunts quarreling. And because Pele was 

 very angry she lighted the fire which filled the crater. Hiiaka feared the niece might 

 die. So she went to get her brother, Ahuimaiapakanaloa,"' living in Nuumealani, the 

 only one who could appease Pele. When the brother arrived the fire subsided. Then 

 the niece went down, and when she noticed the banana" was ripe she reached out and 

 ate some. Thus she journeyed until she got down to the bottom, the fire meanwhile 

 receding until it disappeared in the mouth of Pele. And when Pele recognized their 

 niece, she said, "I thought you would die, because I did not recognize you, but I see 

 your younger aunt was correct in telling me that you are our niece." 



Then Pele again said to the niece: "There is food above." The niece asked: 

 "What kind of food is it?" The aunt replied: "There is ohelo; it must be ripe now; 

 that is what we are eating."'- When the niece heard this she went up and saw the ripe 

 ohelo; she grasped and broke some. But when it was broken, blood flowed forth like 

 a human being's. She smelled it and it was stinking, so she left it and went down again. 

 She said to Pele, "I thought it was a good thing you directed me to get, but when I 



'Koolaii, the windward side and district of the island "Women were restricted from eating certain kinds of 



of Oahu, bananas under priestly rule. 



"Hccia, a large division of Koolau, adjoining Kaneohc. ''Ohelo berries thrown into the volcano were supposed 



'"Aluii niaia-pakana-loa signifies the "long pendent 'o be the acceptable offering, originating perhaps from 



stem of a bunch of bananas." I'le ,f=ict that their cool nature made it welcome to 



Pele's parched throat. 



