BECKWITH] APPENDIX 637 
ashes at the shaking of the queen’s skirt, except the hero, who escapes 
and by his good looks and quick wit wins the friendship of the queen’s 
maids and her brothers. When he approaches the queen he must 
encounter certain tests. The dog he turns into ashes; to befriend 
him the maids run away and the bird brothers transform themselves 
into a rock, a log, a coral rock, and a hard blue rock, in order to hide 
themselves. He escapes poisoned food set before him. Then he 
worships each one by name, and they are astounded at his knowl- 
edge. The queen therefore takes him as her husband. She is part 
human, part divine; the moon is her grandfather, the thunder-and- 
lightning-bolt is her uncle. Aukelanuiaiku must know her taboos, 
eat where she bids him, not come to her unless she leads him in. 
The bird Halulu with feathers on her forehead, called Hinawai- 
kolii, who is the queen’s cousin, carries the hero away to her nest 
in the cliff, but he kills her with his ax, and her mate, Kiwaha, lets 
him down on a rainbow. 
The two live happily. Their first child is to be called Kauwila- 
nuimakehaikalani, “the lightning seen in a rainstorm,” and for him 
sugar cane, potato, banana and taro are tabooed. The queen can 
return to life if cut to pieces; can turn herself into a cliff, a roaring 
fire, and a great ocean; and has the power of flight. All her tricks 
the queen and her brothers teach to the hero. Then she sends him 
with her brothers to meet her relatives. He goes ahead of his 
guides, encounters Kuwahailo, who sends against him two bolts of 
fire, Kukuena and Mahuia, and two thunder rocks, Ikuwa and 
Welehu, all of which he wards off like a puff of wind. Next they 
meet Makali and his wife, the beautiful Malanaikuaheahea. 
The next adventure is after the water of life with which to re- 
store the brothers to life. The first trip is unsuccessful. Instead 
of flying in a straight line between the sky (lewa) and space 
(nenelu—literally, mud) the hero falls into space and is obliged 
to cling to the moon for support. Meanwhile his wife thinks him 
dead and has summoned Night, Day, Sun, Stars, Thunder, Rainbow, 
Lightning, Water-spout, Fog, Fine rain, ete., to mourn for him. 
Then, through her supernatural knowledge she hears him declare 
to the moon, her grandfather, Kaukihikamalama, his birth and an- 
cestry, and learns for the first time that they are related. On the 
next trip he reaches a deep pit, at the bottom of which is the well 
of everlasting life, the property of Kamohoalii. It is guarded by 
two maternal uncles of the hero, Kanenaiau and Hawewe, and a 
maternal aunt, Luahinekaikapu, the sister of the lizard grand- 
mother, who is blind. The hero steals the bananas she is roasting, 
dodges her anger, and restores her sight. She paints up his hands 
to look like Kamohoalii’s and the guards at the well hand him the 
