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Killed, Kila imitates the call of a mud hen and the sacrifice is post- 
poned. Finally the mother and other brothers are summoned, Kila 
makes himself known, and the mother demands the brothers’ death. 
Kila offers himself as the first to be killed, and reconciliation follows. 
Later he goes with Laamaikahiki back to Tahiti to carry their 
father’s bones. 
9. UMI 
The great chief of Hawaii, Liloa, hasa son by Piena, named Hakau. 
On a journey to dedicate the temple of Manini at Kohalalele, Liloa 
sees Akahiakuleana bathing in the Hoea stream at Kaawikiwiki and 
falls in love with her. Some authorities claim she was of low birth, 
others make her a relative of Liloa. He leaves with her the custom- 
ary tokens by which to recognize his child. When their boy Umi 
is grown, having quarreled with his supposed father, he takes the 
tokens and, by his mother’s direction, goes to seek Liloa in Waipio 
valley. Two boys, Omaokamao and Piimaiwaa, whom he meets on 
the way, accompany him. Umi enters the sacred inclosure of the 
chief and sits in his father’s lap, who, recognizing the trophies, 
pardons the sacrilege and sending for his gods, performs certain 
ceremonies. At his death he wills his lands and men to Hakau, but 
his gods and temples to Umi. 
Hakau is of a cruel and jealous disposition. Umi is obliged to 
leave him and go to farming with his two companions and a third, 
Koi, whom he meets on the way. He marries two girls, but their 
parents complain that he is lazy and gets no fish. Racing with 
Paiea at Laupahoehoe, he gets crowded against the rocks. This is a 
breach of etiquette and he nurses his revenge. Finally, by a rainbow 
sign and by the fact that a pig offered in sacrifice walks toward Umi, 
his chiefly blood is proved to the priest Kaoleioku. The priest con- 
siders how Umi may win the kingdom away from the unpopular 
Hakau. Umi studies animal raising and farming. He builds four 
large houses, holding 160 men each, and these are filled in no time 
with men training in the arts of war. A couple of disaffected old 
men, Nunu and Kakohe, are won over to Umi’s cause, and they ad- 
vise Hakau to prepare for war with Umi. While all the king’s men 
are gone to the forests to get feathers for the war god, Umi and his 
followers start, on the day of Olekulna, and on the day of Lono 
they surprise and kill Hakau and his few attendants, who thought 
they were men from the outdistricts come with their taxes. So Umi 
becomes king. Kaoleioku is chief priest, and Nunu and Kakohe are 
high in authority. The land he divides among his followers, giving 
Kau to Omaokamau, Hilo to Kaoleioku, Hamakua to Piimaiwaa, 
Kahala to Koi, Kona to Ehu, and Puna to another friend. To 
prove how long Umi will hold his kingdom, he is placed 8 fathoms 
