is said that when Hiiaka went to the island of Kauai to recover
and restore to life the body of Lohiau, the lover of her sister,
Pele, she arrived at the foot of the Kalalau Mountain shortly before
sunset. Being told by her friends at Haena that there would not be
daylight sufficient to climb the _pali_ (precipice) and get the body
out of the cave in which it was hidden, she prayed to her gods to keep
the sun stationary (_i ka muli o Hea_) over the brook Hea, until she
had accomplished her object. The prayer was heard, the mountain was
climbed, the guardians of the cave vanquished, and the body recovered."

A story of retarding the sun and making the day longer to accomplish
his purpose is told of Maui-a-kalana, according to Dibble's history.

Judge Fornander alludes to one other legend with incidents similar to
the Old Testament history wherein "Na-ula-a-Mainea, an Oahu prophet,
left Oahu for Kauai, was upset in his canoe, was swallowed by a whale,
and thrown up alive on the beach at Wailua, Kauai."

Judge Fornander says that, when he first heard the legend of the two
brother prophets delivering the Menehune people, "he was inclined to
doubt its genuineness and to consider it as a paraphrase or adaptation
of the Biblical account by some semi-civilized or semi-Christianized
Hawaiian, after the discovery of the group by Captain Cook. But a
larger and better acquaintance with Hawaiian folk-lore has shown that
though the details of the legend, as interpreted by the Christian
Hawaiian from whom it was received, may possibly in some degree, and
unconsciously to him, perhaps, have received a Biblical coloring, yet
the main facts of the legend, with the identical names of persons and
places, are referred to more or less distinctly in other legends of
undoubted antiquity." And the Rev. Mr. Dibble, in his history, says