e course of these appear Wakea and his three wives, Haumea, Papa,
and Hoohokukalani. Wakea, becoming unfaithful to Papa, changes the feast
days and establishes the taboo. Later the stars are hung in the heavens.
Wakea seeks in the sea for "seeds from Hina," with which to strew the
heavens. Hina floats up from the bottom of the sea and bears sea
creatures and volcanic rocks. Haumea, a stranger of high rank from
Kuaihelani at Paliuli, marries her own sons and grandsons. To her line
belong Waolena and his wife Mafuie, whose grandchild, Maui, is born in
the shape of a fowl. The brothers of his mother, Hina, are angry and
fight Maui, but are thrown. They send him to fetch a branch from the
sacred _awa_ bush; this, too, he achieves. He desires to learn the art
of fishing, and his mother gives him a hook and line with which he
catches "the royal fish Pimoe." He "scratches the eight eyes" of the bat
who abducts Hina. He nooses the sun and so wins summer. He conquers (?)
Hawaii, Maui, Kauai, and Oahu. From him descends "the only high chief of
the island."

H. CHANTS RELATING THE ORIGIN OF THE GROUP

A. KAHAKUIKAMOANA

This famous priest chants the history of "the row of islands from
Nuumea; the group of islands from the entrance to Kahiki." First Hawaii
is born, "out of darkness," then Maui, then Molokai "of royal lineage."
Lanai is a foster child, Kahoolawe a foundling, of whose afterbirth is
formed the rock island Molokini. Oahu and Kauai have the same mother but
different fathers. Another pair bear the triplets, the islets Niihau,
Kaulu, and Nihoa.

B. PAKUI

According to this high priest and historian of Kamehameha I, from Wakea
and Papa are born Kahikiku, Kahikimoe ("the foundation stones," "the
stones of heaven"), Hawaii, and Maui. While Papa is on a visit to
Kahiki, Wakea takes another wife and begets Lanai, then takes Hina to
wife and begets Molokai. The plover tells Papa on her return, and she in
revenge bears to Lua the child Oahu. After this she returns to Wakea and
bears Kauai and its neighboring islets.

C. KAMAHUALELE

The foster son of Moikeha accompanies this chief on the journey to
Hawaii and Kauai. On sighting land at Hawaii he chants a song in honor
of his chief in which he calls Hawaii a "man," "child of Kahiki," and
"royal offspring from Kapaahu."

D. OPUKAHONUA

This man with his two brothers and a woman peopled Hawaii 95 generations
before Kamehameha. According t