Rice — Hazvaiian Legends 131 



that he must return to earth, and tell his friends there about the beauties 

 of the hidden land and the power of the gods. As Makua looked, he saw 

 that his wife had disappeared and he also saw eight men all exactly alike 

 coming toward him, and he told them how his great love for his wife had 

 made him weep when he saw her in danger. 



One of the men said to him, "Hear now the sentence we shall give 

 you. Because you have broken the laws of this land, you must be sent 

 back to the land where men die. When you are very old, death shall 

 befall you. Your body will be destroyed, but your spirit will come to us, 

 though you cannot become a god. Your son will become a god, and he 

 will rescue you from those who keep you in bondage and will rescue your 

 wife's spirit, too. You and your wife will live again through the good 

 deeds of your son." 



Suddenly a very dazzling light shone. The eight men disappeared. 

 Makua saw that the heavens were open and he beheld two bodies clothed 

 in light and accompanied by many spirits arrayed in glorious raiment, but 

 with sorrowful countenances. The spirits spoke, saying, "Dust to dust," 

 and then the doors of the heavens closed. 



Makua realized that the people of heaven were very sad because he 

 had not been strong enough to resist his weakness. 



He hurried into the beautiful wood, where he met the men whom he 

 had seen when he had been thrown upon the sand. They asked where he 

 was going, and Makua replied that he did not know, as there was no one 

 to guide him. They then told him to follow a road which led to the sea 

 where he would find many men and women bathing. 



So Makua walked on and he saw that he was on a point of land run- 

 ning out into the sea where people were bathing. As he stood there, he 

 heard a voice calling, "Do not stand on the big fish of your gods. Do you 

 not see that you are standing on the scales of the fish which brought you 

 here?" 



Then Makua feared that he would again he swallowed by the fish. The 

 fish seemed like a canoe leaving the beach where it had been tied. As it 

 sped swiftly from the land, the people called aloha. The fish swam 

 toward Koolau, and Makua, overcome with sleep, lay down and fell into a 

 deep sleep. For three days and three nights the fish carried the sleeping 

 man and then safely landed him on the sand at Koolau and waited near 

 until he was found by a man, who thought him to be a ghost, and who 

 ran quickly to tell his friends that he had seen Makua's ghost. 



Others hurried to the spot and heard his deep breathing. As they 

 wakened him, he heard them saying, "This is not Makua's body. It is the 

 body of a spirit. We have seen him swallowed by the big fish." 



