Hawaiian Folk Tales - A Collection of Native Legends by Various
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was delivered and saved. Afterward this last dreamer told Kamohoalii,
the king of the land, how wonderful was the skill of Waikelenuiaiku in interpreting dreams, and the king sent and delivered him from prison and made him a principal chief in his kingdom." Judge Fornander alludes to this legend, giving the name, however, _Aukelenui-a-Iku_, and adding to it the account of the hero's journey to the place where the water of life was kept (_ka-wai-ola-loa-a-Kane_), his obtaining it and therewith resuscitating his brothers, who had been killed by drowning some years before. Another striking similarity is that furnished to Judge Fornander in the legend of _Ke-alii-waha-nui_: "He was king of the country called Honua-i-lalo. He oppressed the Menehune people. Their god Kane sent Kane-apua and Kaneloa, his elder brother, to bring the people away, and take them to the land which Kane had given them, and which was called _Ka aina momona a Kane_, or _Ka one lauena a Kane_, and also _Ka aina i ka haupo a Kane_. The people were then told to observe the four Ku days in the beginning of the month as _Kapu-hoano_ (sacred or holy days), in remembrance of this event, because they thus arose (_Ku_) to depart from that land. Their offerings on the occasion were swine and goats." The narrator of the legend explains that formerly there were goats without horns, called _malailua_, on the slopes of Mauna Loa on Hawaii, and that they were found there up to the time of Kamehameha I. The legend further relates that after leaving the land of Honualalo, the people came to the _Kai-ula-a-Kane_ (the Red Sea of Kane); that they were pursued by Ke-alii-waha-nui; that Kane-apua and Kanaloa prayed to Lono, and finally reached the _Aina lauena a Kane_. "In the famous Hawaiian legend of _Hiiaka-i-ka-poli-o-Pele_, it |
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