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e is a woman of rank from another island,
named Kanikaniaula. She gives him a feather cape, until then unknown on
Maui. The king, angry at his runner's delay, has prepared an oven to
cook him in at his return, but at sight of the feather cape he is
mollified, and marries the restored chiefess. Their child is Kaululaau.
(See under Trickster stories.)
PAMANO
In Kahikinui, Maui, in the village of Kaipolohua, in the days of King
Kaiuli, is born Pamano, child of Lono and Kenia. His uncle is Waipu, his
sisters are spirits named Nakinowailua and Hokiolele. Pamano studies the
art of the _hula_, and becomes a famous dancer, then comes to the
uplands of Mokulau in Kaupo, where the king adopts him, but places a
taboo between him and his daughter, Keaka. Keaka, however, entices
Pamano into her house. Now Pamano and his friend, Hoolau, have agreed
not to make love to Keaka without the other's consent. Koolau, not
knowing it is the girl's doing, reports his friend to the king, and he
and his wife decide that Pamano must die. They entice him in from surf
riding, get him drunk with _awa_ in spite of his spirit sisters'
warnings, and chop him to pieces. The sisters restore him to life. At a
_kilu_ game given by Keaka and Koolau. Pamano reveals himself in a chant
and orders his three enemies slain before he will return to Keaka.
3. HAWAII STORIES
KAULANAPOKII
Kaumalumalu and Lanihau of Holualoa, Kona, Hawaii, have five sons and
five daughters. The boys are Mumu, Wawa, Ahewahewa, Lulukaina and
Kalino; their sisters are Mailelaulii, Mailekaluhea, Mailepakaha,
Mailehaiwale, and Kaulanapokii, who is endowed with gifts of magic. The
girls go sight-seeing along the coast of Kohala, and Mailelaulii weds the
king of Kohala, Hikapoloa. He gets them to send for the supernatural
pearl fishhook with which their brothers catch _aku_ fish, but the hook
sent proves a sham, and the angry chief determines to induce the
brothers thither on a visit and then kill them in revenge. When the five
arrive with a boatload of _aku_, the sisters are shut up in the woman's
house composing a name song for the first-born. Each brother in turn
comes up to the king's house and thrusts his head in at the door, only
to have it chopped off and the body burnt in a special kind of wood
fire, _opiko_, _aaka_, _mamane_, _pua_ and _alani_. The youngest sister,
however, is aware of the event, and the sisters determine to slay
Hikapoloa. When he comes i
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