204 Pnruandcr Collection of Haivaiian Folk-lore. 



The moon commences to disorganize. 

 The moon is stranded on tliis night. 

 The makahiki god is prepared. 

 The girdle for the deity is beaten. 

 Small deities are all decorated. 

 Decoration of the feather god. 

 Decorating the wooden idol. 

 Services of the feather god. 

 Services of the wooden deity. 

 Each man holds services to the deity. 

 The deity is out on the public highway. 



Let us talk about this day so that it may be made ])lain. At Hikapoloa \^as the 

 temple where the makahiki god was preser\ed, on coming- up from Mookini. It was a 

 large temple in the low lands of that name, in the ahupuaa of Puuepa, Kohala, Ha- 

 waii. At Hikapoloa two gods were set up. The gulch remains to this day. There 

 were two gods, a wooden and feather god. The feather god goes mountainward along 

 the cliffs ; the wooden god goes on the inside.'" 



The day that the gods went out was sacred ; no fires were lighted, no cultivat- 

 ing, no fishing, and no other work was done. Merrymaking, pride demonstrations and 

 going to Hinakahua to witness the boxing were the occupations of the day. The maka- 

 hiki god led the procession, the people following behind making merry, boxing along till 

 they reached Hinakahua. When two men stood up to box, if one fell there were loud 

 cheerings and huzzas. Then the voices of derision proceeded from one side against 

 the other, the blows had been delivered with great force and struck the nose, the eyes, 

 the chin: discoloring the eye, dislocating the nose and disjointing the jaw. This was 

 the way they jeered at the defeated side: "Eat the manure of your chicken: the boar is 

 biting: wait, wait, let the maniac finish eating: hcita! liciia!" roared the cnnvd. Thus it 

 continued till sunset when everybody retired to his ])lace. 



24. Kaloakulua. The god journeys. 



25. Kaloakukolu. The god journeys until it reaches Pololu and stops. 



26. Kane. The god repairs to Mookini. 



27. Lono. Still boxing. 



28. Mauli. The long god comes from Kona. 



29. Muku. The long god arrives at the barren seashore. 

 Hoaka. The long god reaches Kohala. 



.^o 



THE LONG GOD."" 



This was the deity which made the circuit of the island of Hawaii to completion. 

 The body was of kaitila wood, three fathoms long. A cross [piece] was affixed about 

 its middle, and on the to])most end was fastened an ivory [ornament] with a girdle cloth 

 about six yards in length. Whenever this deity made the circuit that was the time that 

 the people paid their tributes'* with goods, swine, cloths, feathers. If the products of 

 the land was small the deity was displeased and refused to go on. If the deity is de- 



="Inside and outside were the terms indicating east near the head of which was a decorated cross stick 



and west, in Kohala. The wooden or short god was carrying a ka[<a banner. 



carried eastward till it readied the border of the dis- "Tributes in the way of annual taxes, which were col- 

 trict, whence it returned. The feather god referred to lected by the hnnohil'is of a district from the people 

 was doubtless tlie long god, Lono, with feather wreaths ^ere deposited at tlic border of each ahiifui.111 before- 

 decorating the banner cross stick. hand along the route of the god's journey, and ample 



""This was Lono. the makahiki god, a carved image to satisfy the deity (through its kahus) so as to cause 



of small size surmounting a long joint-shaped pole, no delay, on pain of severe penalty on all parties con- 

 cerned. 



