KMEHSON] UNWRITTEN LITERATURE OF HAWAII 229 



Ike ia ka bono a Pii-laui ; ** 



K\} ka paoa i na mokupuni. 



Ua pimi au ia Pele, 



Ka u'i noho mau i Kilauea, 

 10 Anau hewa i ke a o Puna. 



Keiki kolohe a Ku ame Hiua — * 



Hina ka opua, kau i ke olewa, 



Ke ao pua'a ^ maalo i Haiipu. 



Hakii'i ku'u manao e boi '' i Knbikl ; 

 15 Pan ole ka'n hooliihi ia Hale-ma'u-ma'u,^ 



I ka paii kapu a Ka-moho-alii. f 



Kela knahiwi a mau a lie abi. 



He manao no ko'u e nobo pu ; 



Pale 'a mai e ka bilabila, 

 20 I ka bakukole ia mai e ke Akua wabine. 



Pale oe, pale au, iloko o ka bilabila ; 



A bilabila wale ia iho no e oe; 



Nau no ia bale i nobo.f' 



Ka bana ia a ke Ko'i maka nui, 

 25 Ike ia na pae moku. 



He biapo '* au na Olopana, 



He bi'i-alo na Ku-ula, 



Ka mea nana na baka moa : 



" Pi'i-lani. A king of Maui, father-in-law to Umi, the son of Liloa. 



'' Hina. There were several Ilinas in Hawaiian mythology and tradition. Olopana. the 

 son of Kamaulu-a-niho (Fornander givos this name as Ka-maunu-a-niho), on his arrival 

 from Kahiici, settled in Koolau and married a woman named Hina. Kama-pua'a is said 

 to be the natural son of Hina by Kahiki-ula, the brother of Olopana. To this Olopana 

 was attributed the heiau of Kawaewae at Kaneohe. 



■■ Ao pua'a. The cloud-cap that often rested on the summit of Haupu, a mountain on 

 Kauai, near Koloa, is said to have resembled the shape of a pig. It was a common saying, 

 " The pig is resting on Haupu." 



'' Ho'i. To return. This argues that, if Kama-pua'a was not originally from Kahiki, 

 he had at least visited there. 



' Hale-ma'u-tna'u. This was an ancient lava-cone which until within a few years con- 

 tinued to be the most famous flre-lake in the caldera of Kilauea. It was so called, prob- 

 ably, because tlie roughness of its walls gave it a resemblance to one of those little shelters 

 made from rough aiiia'u fern such as visitors put up for temporary convenience. The 

 word has not the same pronunciation and is not to be confounded with that other word 

 inau. meaning everlasting. 



f Kamoho-ali'l. The brother of Pele ; in one metamorphosis he took the form of a 

 shark. A high point in the northwest quarter of the wall of Kilauea was considered his 

 special residence and regarded as so sacred that no smoke or flame from the volcano evev 

 touched it. He made his abode chiefly in the earth's underground caverns, through 

 which the sun made its nightly transit from West back to the East. He often retained 

 the orb of the day to warm and illumine his abode. On one such occasion the hero Mawi 

 descended into this region and stole away the sun that his mother Hina might have the 

 benefit of its heat in drying her tapas. 



« Hale i noho. The word hale, meaning house, is frequently used metaphorically for 

 the human body, especially that of a woman. Pele thus acknowledges her amour with 

 Kama-pua'a. 



'' Hiapo. A firstborn child. Legends are at variance with one another as to the 

 parentage of Kama-pua'a. According to the legend referred to previously, Kama-pua'a 

 was the son of Olopana's wife Hina, his true father lieing Kahiki-ula. the brother of 

 Olopana. Olopana seems to have treated him as his own son. After Kama-pua'as 

 robbery of his mother's henroosts, Olopana chased the thief into the mountains and 

 captured him. Kama eventually turned the tables against his benefactor and caused the 

 death of Olopana through the treachery of a priest in a heiau ; he was offered up on the 

 altar as a sacritice. 



