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for paddle and fishhook, then, with his club to aid him, springs to 
Molokai, Lanai, Maui, and thence to Kaula, Hawaii. Hina’s sister 
Lupea becomes his attendant. She is a haw tree, and where Palila’s 
malo is hung no haw tree grows to this day, through the power of 
Ku, Palila’s god. The kings of Hilo and Hamakua districts, 
Kulukulua and Wanua, are at war. Palila fights secretly, known 
only by a voice which at each victim calls “slain by me, Palila, 
by the offspring of Walewale, by the word of Lupea, by the 
oo bird that sings in the forest, by the mighty god Ku.” Finally he 
makes himself known and kills Moananuikalehua, whose war club, 
Koholalele, takes 700 men to carry; Kumunuiaiake, whose spear of 
mamane wood from Kawaihae can be thrown farther than one 
ahupuaa; and Puupuukaamai, whose spear of hard hoaie wood can 
kill 1,200 at a stroke. The jaw bones of these heroes he hangs on the 
tree Kahakaauhae. Kulukulua is made ruler; finally Palila becomes 
king of Hilo. 
5, AIAI 
Kuula and Hina live at Niolopa, Nuuanu. They possess a pearl 
fish hook called Kanoi, guarded by the bird Kamanuwai, who lives 
upon the aku fish caught by the magic hook. When Kipapalaulu, 
king of Honolulu, steals the hook, the bird sleeps from hunger, hence 
the name of the locality, Kaumakapili, “ perching with closed eyes.” 
Hina bears an abortive child which she throws into the water. It 
drifts to a rock below the Hoolilimanu bridge and floats there. This 
child is Aiai. The king’s daughter discovers it, brings up the child, 
and when he becomes a handsome youth, she marries him. One day 
she craves the aku fish. Her husband, Aiai, persuades her to beg the 
stolen hook of her father. Thus he secures the hook and returns it 
to its bird guardian.? 
6. PUNIAIKI 
The handsome son of Nuupia and of Halekou of Kaneohe, Oahu, 
who nurses Uhumakaikai, the parent of all the fishes, is furnished 
with whatever fish he wants. He marries Kaalaea, a handsome and 
well-behaved woman of the district, who brings him no dowry, but 
to whom he and his father make gifts according to custom. With 
his mother’s permission he goes to live in her home, but the aunt 
insults him because he does nothing but sleep. The family offer to 
Ixill her, but he broods over his wrong, leaves for Kauai, and, on a 
wager, bids his mother use her influence to send the fish thither. 
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1Compare the fishhook Pahuhu in WNihoalaki; the leho shells in Jwa, and the 
pearl fishhook of Kona in Kaulanapokii. In Thrum’s story from Moke Manu (p. 230) 
Aiai is the son of the fish god, Kuula, and, like his father, acts as a culture hero who 
locates the fishing grounds and teaches the art of making fish nets for various kinds of 
fishes. The hero of this story is Aiai’s son, Puniaiki. 
