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diff --git a/29773.txt b/29773.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8f377d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/29773.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1518 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Legends of Wailuku, by Charlotte Hapai + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Legends of Wailuku + +Author: Charlotte Hapai + +Illustrator: Will Herwig + +Release Date: August 23, 2009 [EBook #29773] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LEGENDS OF WAILUKU *** + + + + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive/American +Libraries.) + + + + + + +_LEGENDS +OF THE +WAILUKU_ + +_SECOND EDITION_ + +_Copyright 1920-1921 by_ +THE CHARLES R. FRAZIER COMPANY +HONOLULU + +_Paradise of the Pacific Print_ + + + [Illustration: Drawn by Will Herwig. Paradise Eng. + + Hina's Spirit Still Lives in the Mists of Rainbow Falls.] + + + + +LEGENDS + +OF THE + +WAILUKU + + +_As told by old +Hawaiians and +done into the +English tongue +by Charlotte +Hapai_ + + +_Illustrated +by +Will Herwig_ + + + + + _To remember our happy + hours of story-telling, + this printed fragment + is in gratitude dedicated + to my grandmother, + Harriet Kamakanoenoe Hapai._ + + + + +THE WAILUKU. + + +Fed from the great watershed of Hawaii far up the densely wooded +flanks of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea--often snow-capped in winter--the +Wailuku River roars through the very center of Hilo, principal town of +the Island of Hawaii. + +There are many vague stories as to why the Wailuku River was so named. +In the Hawaiian tongue Wailuku means literally "destroying water." + +In olden times before there were bridges and other safeguards the +river wrought considerable damage to property and during the rainy +season it took its toll of human lives. Legends connected with the +Wailuku tend to confirm the belief that it was named for its violent +habits. + +Long ago, so one legend goes, the much dreaded Kuna (dragon) blocked +the gorge below Rainbow Falls with intent to back the waters up and +drown the goddess Hina, who dwelt in the great cave for which the +falls form a curtain. How her son, the demi-god Maui, came to the +rescue, saved his mother, and finally hunted Kuna from his lair up the +river and slew him, is told in the legend, "The Last of Kuna." + +When Paoa, a very powerful god from Tahiti, came to visit Hawaii he +built a grass hut and made his home on the long, low rock--now known +as Maui's canoe--in the Wailuku near its mouth. + +Local gods viewed this selection of a homesite as foolhardy, but Paoa +was unaware of the sudden and rapid rise the river made when heavy +rains and cloud-bursts loosed their torrents high upon the slopes of +Mauna Kea. Hina, goddess of the river, warned the visitor of his +danger and told him how the angry waters would sweep everything before +them. In the legend, "The Coming of Paoa," you will find his answer. + +In those days there must have been much more water in the river than +there is today, for a certain amount is now diverted above Rainbow +Falls for water power. + +In spite of the decreased volume the river is still very violent and +treacherous. At high water big boulders are clumsily rolled down +stream and when the river is unusually high even trees are torn from +the banks and carried out to sea. + +So the Wailuku still lives up to its name, Destroying Water. + + + + +HOW HILO WAS NAMED. + + +King Kamehameha the Great was a very famous warrior. His chief +ambition, which he lived to realize, was to become sole ruler of all +the Hawaiian Islands. Naturally he had numerous enemies, and he never +remained long in one place for fear some of them might learn of his +whereabouts and attack him. + +One time, when he was encamped near the mouth of the Wailuku, he +planned a quiet visit to what is now known as Reed's Island, where +lived a particular friend of his. As this friend was a powerful chief, +Kamehameha felt safe in going to him without his usual warrior +bodyguard. + +Before leaving camp he called his servants to him and told them to +stand watch over his canoe, that it might not be stolen or carried +away by the tide. This they promised faithfully to do. + +As time passed and the king did not return or send word to his +servants they grew uneasy about him. Perhaps he might have been +ambushed, they reasoned; or more likely fallen into one of the caverns +formed by ancient lava flows and which are often treacherously +concealed by a thin, brittle crust that a man of Kamehameha's bulk +might easily break through. Much as they feared for the king's safety, +the servants dared not leave the canoe unguarded. They were in a +quandary indeed. + +"I know what we can do!" cried one of the men. "We can make a rope of +ti leaves and tie the canoe so it cannot drift away." + +"Make a rope," queried another, "how can we do that?" + +"Simple enough," answered the first speaker. "I'll show you. Take the +ti leaves and fasten them together. First you make two chains of +leaves--like this--and then twist each one. When you place them +together they will naturally twine about each other and you have a +very strong rope. Such twisting is called hilo." + +"I've never seen it done," admitted his fellow sentry, "but it looks +very simple." + +"And so it is," went on the resourceful one, as he rapidly twisted the +ti leaves into serviceable ropes. "Now," he concluded, "these are +plenty long enough. Let us make the canoe fast to the beach." + +And taking their ropes to the canoe they tied it securely to that +point of land--known to the old Hawaiians as Kaipaaloa--near the mouth +of the river where the lighthouse stands today. Then they set out in +search of the king. + +Only a short way up the river they met Kamehameha returning unharmed. +Ignoring the spirit of their intent in absenting themselves from their +post of duty, the king demanded: + +"But where is my canoe? What have you done with my canoe? You promised +to guard it. By now it may have drifted out to sea or been stolen!" + +"We tied it with ti ropes," answered the servant who had woven them. + +"Ti ropes!" roared his majesty. "Why, no one here knows how to make +ropes like that. The only place they do know is at Waipio. How did you +learn?" + +"I came to you from there," the man answered. + +"Oh, and that is where you learned. Well and good. Hereafter this +place shall be called Hilo." + +And so it has been. The town at the mouth of the Wailuku has since +that day been known by the Hawaiian word meaning "to twist." + + + + +MAUI CONQUERS THE SUN. + + +Hina, the goddess who in the long ago made her home in the great cave +beneath Rainbow Falls, was especially gifted in the art of tapa +making. So wonderfully artistic and fine were the tapas of Hina that +people journeyed from all parts of the Island to view them and to +covet. Even across the mighty shoulders of Mauna Loa from Kona and +Kailua and down the rugged Hamakua Coast from Waipio they came, and +from the other islands as well. + +It was hard, laboring over the tapa every day, and especially hunting +for the olona which Hina sometimes used. But she used also the bark of +the mamake and wauke trees, which were more plentiful and very good +for tapa. + +Interested though he was in the manufacture and decoration of this +beautiful paper-cloth, Hina's son, the demi-god Maui, held aloof from +the work. In the making of tapa man's hand was tabu, yet he could not +forbear an occasional suggestion when his mother created mystic +designs for decoration of her work. + +After the tapa was made it had to be placed for the Sun to dry, but by +the time Hina would reach the drying frames, the Sun was far up in the +sky. All too soon long shadows would creep across the stream below +Rainbow Falls, warning her that night approached and that it was time +to take in her tapa. + + [Illustration: Drawn by Will Herwig. Paradise Eng. + + As Maui Reached the Eastern Rim the Sun Was Disappearing.] + +Quite often the dyes with which the designs were painted on the tapa +were not entirely dry when the tapa was taken in, and many fine pieces +were smeared and ruined. Days were short in the narrow walled-in river +gorge and the Sun shone directly on the tapa for only a few hours, +passing then beyond the high western wall, and gloom would settle +about the cave, growing deeper with oncoming night. + +It grieved Maui to see his mother's tapa so often spoiled, so he +besought the Sun to go more slowly. For one or two days he did +moderate his pace and Hina rejoiced in the lovely tapas she was able +to make. But soon the heedless Sun hurried past again as fast as ever, +entirely forgetting his promise to Maui. + +So Maui determined to exact a lasting agreement with the Sun, and set +out in his canoe for Maui, the Island which bears his name and on +which is situated Haleakala, today the greatest extinct crater in the +world and in olden time the Home of the Sun. Maui hoped to catch him +there. + +As Maui reached the eastern rim of Haleakala the Sun was just +disappearing over the other side; but Maui knew he would return in the +morning, so he prepared to spend the night in waiting. + +As the Sun returned to his home next morning Maui caught him by his +rays, which the Sun used as legs, and, wielding the magic club which +he always carried on his many expeditions, broke several of them. Thus +crippled, the Sun was forced to stay for parley, though crying out in +alarm that he must be let go, as there was no time to waste. Day must +be carried westward. But Maui hung on and reminded the Sun of his +promises. + +After much argument they agreed to compromise; so the Sun promised to +go slowly six months in the year and then, for the remaining six +months, to hurry as fast as before. + +Maui was content with this arrangement and sure also that the Sun +would not again forget, for he had crippled him considerably. It would +take some time, he thought, for the Sun's broken rays to mend. + +So, very well pleased with his success, Maui permitted the Sun to +proceed on his journey, while himself he prepared to return with all +speed, bearing the good news to his mother. + + + + +KUNA, THE DRAGON. + + +Far above Rainbow Falls there lived a powerful kupua named Kuna. Kuna +had the form of a monstrous dragon, unlike anything in these islands +today. + +Kuna often tormented the goddess Hina in her rocky cave behind Rainbow +Falls by sending over great torrents of water or by rolling logs and +boulders down the stream. Quite often he would block the stream below +the falls with sediment sent down by freshets during the rainy +seasons. + +But Hina was well protected. Her cave was large and the misty cloud of +spray from the falling waters helped to conceal it. So in spite of the +frequent floods and many threats from Kuna, Hina paid him not the +slightest attention, but with her songs and gay laughter lightly +mocked him as she worked. + +On many days Hina was quite alone, while her eldest son, the demi-god +Maui, was away on one of his numerous expeditions. Even then she did +not mind this, for should any danger befall her she had a peculiar +cloud servant which she called "ao-opua." If Hina were in trouble this +ao-opua would rise high above the falls, taking an unusual shape. When +Maui saw this warning cloud he would hurry home at once to his +mother's side. + +One night while Maui was away from home on the Island of Maui, where +he had gone to bargain with the Sun, a storm arose. The angry waters +roared about the mouth of Hina's cave. They hissed and tossed in ugly +blackness down the narrow river gorge; but Hina heard naught of the +wildness without. Being used to the noisy cataract, her slumbers were +not disturbed by the heightened tumult of its roar. + +But Kuna, quite aware of the situation, was quick to take advantage +and to act. Hina's apparent indifference annoyed him. He recalled +several failures to conquer her, and rage overwhelmed him. Calling +upon his powers he lifted an immense boulder and hurled it over the +cliffs. It fitted perfectly where it fell between the walls of the +gorge and blocked the rush of the hurrying torrent. + +Laughing loudly at his success, Kuna called on Hina and warned her of +her plight, but, still unknowing, Hina slept on until the cold waters +entered the cave, rapidly creeping higher and higher until they +reached her where she slept. Startled into wakefulness she sprang to +her feet, and her cries of panic resounded against the distant hills. +As the waters rose higher her cries became more terrified until they +reached the Island of Maui and the ears of her son. + +Through the darkness Maui could see the strange warning cloud, +unusually large and mysterious. With his mother's cries ringing in his +ears he bounded down the mountain to his canoe, which he sent across +the sea to the mouth of the Wailuku with two strong sweeps of his +paddle. The long, narrow rock in the river below the Mauka Bridge, +called Ka Waa o Maui (The Canoe of Maui), is still just where he ran +it aground at the foot of the rapids. + +Seizing his magic club with which he had conquered the Sun, Maui +rushed to the scene of danger. Seeing the rock blocking the river he +raised his club and struck it a mighty blow. Nothing could resist the +magic club! The rock split in two, allowing the strong current to rush +unhindered on its way. + +Hearing the crash of the club and realizing his attempt on the life of +Hina had again failed, Kuna turned and fled up the river. + +The remains of the great boulder, now known as Lonokaeho, overgrown +with tropical plants and with the river rushing through the rift, lies +there to this day as proof of Maui's prowess. + + + + +THE LAST OF KUNA. + + +So great was the wrath of the demi-god Maui at the fell intent of Kuna +to drown his mother that he vowed never to relent in his search for +the monster, and to kill him on sight. + +Kuna evidently sensed Maui's intentions, for as soon as he saw his +great mischief undone he fled to a hiding-place far up the river. He +realized then how great had been his folly and trembled at the thought +of capture by the mighty demi-god. In spite of his magic powers Kuna +knew Maui's anger to be far greater than all of them put together; +still, he had countless secret hiding-places where it would be +difficult to find him. + +He did not have long to wait in his secret lair before he heard the +thundering voice of Maui commanding him to come forth. The earth shook +with the heavy tread of the vengeful demi-god and the dreadful blows +he dealt all obstacles he passed which might possibly conceal the form +of his enemy. + +The thundering voice and quaking earth became more horrible and +terrifying as Maui approached. Soon he stood before the hole in which +Kuna lay hiding. Catching sight of the ugly monster within, Maui let +out a deafening yell, poised his magic spear, and with one sweep of +his mighty arm hurled it into the depths of Kuna's hiding-place. But +the dragon was sly and agile, notwithstanding his huge bulk, and +slipped out in time to save himself. + +Even today you can see the long hole--puka o Maui--which the +demi-god's spear made through the lava beyond the cavern; sufficient +evidence of the Herculean strength with which the weapon was driven. +Small wonder Kuna so feared a meeting with this outraged son of the +goddess he had sought to drown. + +Wasting no time, Kuna started down stream, with Maui in hot pursuit. +Often the dragon tried to conceal himself in some sheltered spot, or +evade his pursuer by hiding behind a rock, but Maui gave him no rest, +spearing him from one hole to another. + +Diving into one of several deep pools in the river, Kuna hoped that at +last he was safely hidden. Maui was not to be thus easily fooled. He +could see the grotesque bulk of his enemy far below the surface of the +gloomy water. Kuna was cornered. + +Calling upon Pele, goddess of the Volcano, to send him hot stones and +molten lava, Maui cast these into Kuna's retreat until the waters +boiled furiously, sending a vast column of steam far above the rim of +the gorge. + +Known today as the Boiling Pots, although time has cooled their +waters, they still bubble and surge as vigorously as ever, especially +when the heavy rains come and remind them of the time when Kuna the +Dragon sought refuge within their depths. + +Tough as the hide of Kuna was, it could not save him from the terrific +heat generated by the red-hot rocks and lava cast into the pool by +Maui. Nearly exhausted, the monster managed to drag himself from the +cauldron and, shrieking horribly, he again took up his flight down +stream. Maui sent torrents of boiling water after him, scalding at +last the life from his ugly body. + +Then Maui rolled the huge carcass down the river to a point below +Rainbow Falls, within sight of his mother's home, where she could view +daily the evidence that none might threaten her and live. And there +the ungainly form lies today--a long, black-rock island known as Moo +Kuna, between the rapids--where every freshet, every heavy rain, beats +upon it as though in everlasting punishment for plotting the death of +Hawaii's beloved goddess, Hina. + + + + +THE COMING OF PAOA. + + +Many years ago there lived on the Island of Tahiti several brothers, +all very gifted and powerful gods of that land. One was by name Paoa. + +Now Tahitian customs were very like those of Hawaii at that time, in +that the Tahitians offered human sacrifices when a canoe or a heiau +was in process of construction. How the observance of this custom +caused the flight of Paoa to Hawaii, you shall see. + +It so happened that one of the brothers was having a canoe built, and +they were all undecided as to whom should be offered in sacrifice. A +quarrel ensued. Paoa and the owner of the new canoe grew very bitter +towards each other over it. When the time came for the sacrifice +Paoa's only son was taken and offered to the flames. + +Grief-stricken at the loss of his son and furious at the cruelty of +his brother, Paoa decided to leave it all and seek peace on some other +island. In preparation for the long journey by canoe he took only +three things with him: two kinds of fish--the aku and opelu--and some +pili grass. + +Journeying northward he encountered a terrific storm which grew more +terrible as the days passed until it seemed the low canoe could no +longer breast the great mountains of angry water that bore down upon +it as though to drive it under and swallow it into the black depths. + + [Illustration: Drawn by Will Herwig. Paradise Eng. + + Paoa Stood Upon the Little Plot of Pili Grass As He Answered Her.] + +Fearing for his safety, Paoa took the two kinds of fish and threw them +overside. Almost at once the mighty waves were calmed and the canoe +went safely on its way surrounded by an area of calm, peaceful water +while the storm raged on all sides a little distance away. + +Even today if you see a smooth area of water in the midst of a rough +sea you will know that there is a school of aku or opelu very near the +surface. + +So Paoa sailed safely through the storm. As soon as it subsided he +called back the fish and placed them in his canoe once more. They had +been very helpful and might be of use should the storm arise again. + +At last Paoa came to an island which appeared very large and was +covered with vegetation. Paddling his canoe into a great +crescent-shaped bay, he observed a river emptying into it and turned +the nose of his tiny craft that way. Not far up the river he came to a +long, low rock which he called Waa Kauhi, and landed on the +southeastern side of its point. + +So great was the joy of Paoa upon reaching this beautiful island that +he decided to make it his home. To commemorate his safe landing he at +once planted on the rock the pili grass he had brought with him. Also +he liberated his aku and opelu fish in the new waters, where today +their progeny teem in countless millions. + +Very soon he built himself a grass hut for a home, and was careful to +protect the pili grass, which grew rapidly and before long spread to +other parts of the big island, where it throve even better than on the +scant soil of the pahoehoe rock. + +Hawaiians soon learned to use the pili grass in house building, as it +made a tighter thatch and lasted longer than the lauhala or the +grasses to which they had been accustomed. The stems of the flowers +were later used in weaving hats, as they, too, were firm and strong. + +Farther up the river, which Paoa learned was called the Wailuku, there +lived the goddess Hina. Soon after the arrival of this stranger from +Tahiti, Hina heard of him and his chosen home. Evidently he had not +come to wage war or do harm to the people, for he had already made +friends with many of the fishermen living near him. + +So Hina decided to see him for herself and went down to his home. She +was surprised to find that he really had established himself on that +low rock. + +"Why," she exclaimed, "you must not stay on this rock! Can't you see +the waters above here are high? When the rains come you will be washed +away and drowned. It is not safe!" + +Paoa stood upon the little plot of pili grass as he answered her. "No, +I will not go away, for no matter how high the waters come they shall +never cover this spot." + +From that day Paoa's word has held true. No matter how high the +Wailuku rises, it never has covered the little plot of pili grass +which still grows on the long, low rock at the river's mouth. + + + + +MAUI AND THE ALAE BIRDS. + + +Maui, the eldest son of the goddess Hina, lived with his mother and +two brothers in the cave behind Rainbow Falls, in the Wailuku River +Gorge, a short distance mauka of what is today the town of Hilo. Often +the brothers would go fishing in the harbor. + +At this time the Hawaiians knew nothing about fire. All their food was +eaten raw. Occasionally Maui had found in his various wanderings some +bits of cooked banana and pondered over their delicious flavor. He +could not understand what had been done to them until one day he came +upon a group of little alae birds cooking bananas over a fire. + +He was so amazed at the scene that the birds had plenty of time to put +out their fire and take wing before he could bring himself to action. +This only aroused his ambitious nature and he vowed he would learn the +secret of fire. + +In the days that followed he devised many cunning schemes to trap one +of the alae birds, but they, too, were cunning and carefully refrained +from building any fire when Maui was near. Once or twice while he was +out fishing he had seen white puffs of smoke among the trees and knew +the birds were preparing a feast, but he could never reach the place +in time to catch any of them. + +One day he thought of a clever trick and took his brothers into his +confidence. They fixed up a kalabash covered with tapa to resemble a +man and placed it in the middle of Maui's canoe. Then the two brothers +took their seats at either end of the canoe and paddled out into the +harbor while Maui ran back and concealed himself in the woods. + +Soon the alae birds came circling overhead and Maui heard them say, +"At last we can make our fire and have a good feast. Maui and his two +brothers are out for a day's fishing." + +Quivering with excitement, Maui crouched in his hiding-place and +waited. Soon he heard the birds talking quite near him and, peeping +out, saw them pushing fresh bananas into a blazing fire. Rushing into +their midst he caught one of the birds. + +"Tell me how you make fire or you shall never go free!" he demanded. + +At first the bird was sullen and refused to answer, but at Maui's +rough treatment resorted to trickery and replied, "Rub two taro stalks +together and you shall have fire." + +Holding the bird closely, Maui did so, but only little drops of water +came from the stalks. Very angry, Maui punished the bird again and +demanded the truth. Helpless and exhausted, the poor alae told Maui to +take two hau sticks and rub them together. + +Maui found the hau sticks, but fearing the bird was not telling the +truth, he rubbed its head with one of the sticks until a drop of blood +trickled out, staining the tuft of feathers on its crest. But the bird +persisted in this statement, so Maui began rubbing the sticks +together. Little sparks appeared and caught fire to the dead leaves on +which they fell. + +Overjoyed at his discovery, Maui set the bird free. But to this day +every alae bird wears the symbol of punishment for telling its +secret--a tuft of red feathers on the top of its head. + + + + +MAUI'S KITE. + + +Maui, the great demi-god of Hawaii, was restless. Time hung heavy on +his hands. Uneventful days of quiet had fallen upon the land. +Adventure seemed to be in hiding, and no exploit invited to service +this active youngster's shining spear or magic club. Idleness grew +more and more unbearable. + +Now Laamaomao, god of the winds, dwelt not far above Rainbow Falls in +the beautiful gorge of the Wailuku and to him Maui confided his +discontent. The old fellow admitted that times were dull. Not for a +long time had he been called upon for blasts from his greater windpot, +Ipunui. On the heels of this remark came inspiration, and he suggested +that Maui fashion a large kite. He, Laamaomao, would see to it that a +suitable wind be forthcoming and excitement sufficient to break the +dull monotony of too peaceful days. + +So Maui set about the construction of an enormous kite. His mother, +the goddess Hina, made for him a beautiful and strong tapa, and +twisted fibres of the olona into a stout cord. From the rich red wood +of the koa expert and willing hands put together a graceful frame, and +in due time the big plaything was ready. Laamaomao, having fathered +the idea, manifested a keen interest in the proceedings and had his +windpots in readiness for the initial flight. + +Calling Ipuiki, smaller of his two windpots, into action, Laamaomao +directed a steady, gentle breeze up the gorge against the breast of +the great kite, cautioning those who held it to be in readiness to let +go at the proper moment and reminding Maui to have a care lest the +olona cord slip through his hands. + +Gracefully the birdlike thing rose into the brilliant turquoise +sky--that same sky which today so enchants the malihini--and as it +tugged at the line, dipped, rose again and circled about, the thrill +of it came down the cord to Maui's hands and his delight knew no +bounds. + +Often in the quiet days that followed did Maui amuse himself with the +big kite. As he grew more familiar with its handling the impetuous +demi-god would ask Laamaomao for winds from Ipunui and glory in the +tussle his kite gave him when buffeted by these stronger blasts--even +though wise old Laamaomao was careful to moderate their power. + +Sometimes Maui would tire of his sport and, drawing its cord through a +round hole in a rock which lay in the center of a small lake near the +wind caves, would leave his kite to its own devices while he slept. + + [Illustration: Drawn by Will Herwig. Paradise Eng. + + Old Laamaomao, the Wind God, Admitted That Times Were Dull.] + +On one such occasion Laamaomao, having received an order for a great +storm, forgot all about Maui's kite and turned loose his most powerful +wind from Ipunui. All night long it howled through the creaking trees, +driving the rain before it in lashing sheets. Stout as it was, the +olona cord with which Maui's big kite was moored could not long +withstand the strain and finally parted, leaving the kite to the mercy +of the winds. Tossed madly about in the storm, it was carried far +across the flank of Mauna Loa and dropped into the sea off the shore +of Kau. + +Now Puuanuhe, the much-dreaded lizard-woman, made her home on the +shores of the Kau desert, and to her ears had come the wonderful story +of Maui's kite, fanning an already hot jealousy of the young demi-god +and his doings. Puuanuhe was the only creature of those days who had +fiery red hair, and her temper was none the less caloric. + +So when she saw this strange object floating in the water near her +home on the morning after the storm she recognized it as Maui's kite. +Chuckling in vicious satisfaction at this chance opportunity to make +trouble for the handsome son of Hina, Puuanuhe hid the kite in the +rough hills back of Hilea. + +Great was Maui's surprise and consternation when he found his kite +gone. He at once set out in search of it. Days passed without trace of +it, but one day news came to him that Puuanuhe had been seen with a +large kite. He knew it must be his, as there was none other so big. + +Arriving at Hilea he discovered the hideous red-headed lizard-woman, +who admitted she had found his kite, but refused to enlighten him as +to its whereabouts. This same creature had lured many a poor fisherman +to death on the rocky coast of Kau, and Maui thought it high time to +put an end to such a pest, so he killed her. + +Once more he took up his search for his beloved kite and soon found it +cleverly hidden in the hills. Ironically he named the spot Puuanuhe, +and returning home with his precious toy he fastened it securely to +its moorings again. + +Even today you can see the immense kite, now turned to stone, just as +Maui hauled it in for the last time and left it. It is seventy-five +feet long and about forty-five feet wide, narrowing to eighteen feet +at one end. At the narrow end is a crystal-clear lake, very deep and +smooth as glass. In its center is a large, round stone projecting +above the surface with a two-inch aperture in the middle where Maui +used to make his kite string fast. + +Near this lake are the two windpots, Ipunui and Ipuiki, and a little +way below are three very distinct foot-prints, each fifteen inches +long, showing where Maui stood while flying his great kite. + + + + +MAUI'S FISH-HOOK. + + +Maui, the powerful young demi-god who dwelt with his mother, the +goddess Hina, in the great cave behind Rainbow Falls, had succeeded in +so many hazardous undertakings, and had the welfare of his people so +much at heart, that he resolved upon what was to be his greatest deed +of prowess and beneficence. + +Now Maui had a magic fish-hook which he cleverly used while fishing +with his brothers. Maui was very sly and quick, but he was never a +good fisherman. He would sit in the canoe and drag his hook through +the water, catching no fish himself but snagging those his brothers +caught and laughing merrily at their bewildered expressions when they +pulled in their lines and found nothing. + +They distrusted Maui, for he would never let them see his hook, yet +they knew it was shaped differently from theirs. It was more +complicated and had a double barb, while the common fish-hook had but +one. But his brothers could never catch him at his tricks. + +At last they no longer allowed him to accompany them on their fishing +trips, as he took all the fish and honors, and they all knew--Maui +included--that he did not deserve them. So Maui would go alone to the +bay, but the hook remained idle in the bottom of his magic canoe +which, as related in the legend of Kuna, he drove from the shores of +the Island of Maui to the mouth of the Wailuku with two sweeps of his +paddle. + +While drifting about Maui watched some of his people who were not +blessed with magic canoes, and considered the hard paddling required +to send them through the water. + +One day as he sat in his canoe watching another pass by, evidently on +its way to a neighboring island, the demi-god wondered if it might not +make things easier to have all the islands joined together, so people +could travel to any part of the kingdom without the laborious canoe +voyages. + +Calling a meeting of Hawaii's chiefs and strong men Maui informed them +of a plan to draw all the islands together. He told them he would need +their help in pulling the islands, but no matter how hard or how long +they pulled they must never look back to see how much was being +accomplished until the islands were firmly joined together. + +The men solemnly promised to obey Maui and at once proceeded to their +new task. The island now known as Maui was selected for the first +attempt. Maui fastened his magic fish-hook into that part of the land +nearest Hawaii, and at his command the strong men and chiefs paddled +with all their might. Slowly the island moved behind them. + +No one dared look around, though all were burning with curiosity to +see the result of their struggles. Long and steadily they paddled +until the two islands were only a few feet apart. Then one of the +chiefs could no longer control his curiosity and looked around. + +In an instant the charm was broken. The island slid back through the +sea to its former position in spite of all that Maui, chiefs and +strong men could do to stop it. Only a small piece of land was +left--that in which the fish-hook was still deeply imbedded. Today +that bit of land is covered with lauhala trees and coconut palms, and +is known as Coconut Island. + +So great was Maui's disappointment at this his first failure in any +important enterprise that he would not try again. He said his +fish-hook had lost its charm and sorrowfully he took it away with him +in his canoe. He carried it up the Wailuku River to his home behind +Rainbow Falls, where he grieved for many days over the unsuccessful +attempt. Later, having no more use for the hook, he carried it away +from the cave and threw it into the forest near his home, where it lay +undisturbed until the haole came. + +To those early settlers the magic fish-hook of Maui was of less +interest as such than as material for masonry, and not a piece of it +remains. At the forks of the Piihonua-Kaumana road one may, however, +see the peculiar-shaped depression where it lay for so long before +civilization's vanguard swept the tangled jungle of Maui's time from +its hiding-place. + + [Illustration: Drawn by Will Herwig. Paradise Eng. + + But the Strange Woman Smiled and Told Them to Uncover the Imu.] + + + + +HINA KEAHI. + + +Just mauka of the Hilo Boarding School are three large, rounded hills +which, centuries ago, were mud craters. Covered with the green of +rustling cane-tops, at a distance they appear to be soft, grassy +mounds. Many a tourist, gazing from the deck of an incoming ship, has +yearned to "stroll over those smooth, rolling hills," only to find the +pastime quite impossible on nearer view, which revealed the "velvety +grass" as lusty sugar cane stalks ten to fifteen feet high and closely +interwoven. + +But now the last crop of cane has been harvested from these graceful +mounds and their slopes are being prepared to receive the +dwelling-houses of any who choose--and can afford--to live in the +rarified atmosphere of romance that hangs about this Hawaiian Olympus. + +Nor is the term Olympus as applied to these hills a redundant flight +of fancy. Long ago--many, many years before the haole came to plant +his sugar cane in their deep, rich soil--these hills were the homes of +several beautiful goddesses. + +The makai and largest hill, called Halai, was the home of Hina Keahi, +eldest daughter of the goddess Hina, who lived at Waianuenue--the cave +behind Rainbow Falls in the Wailuku River--and sister of Maui the +demi-god. To Hina Keahi was given power over fire. + +In many ways this young goddess aided her people, bestowing upon them +the blessing of protection from fire while teaching them many ways in +which to use it. The remarkable fact has often been noted, by the way, +that although the Hawaiians always lived in grass houses, seldom was +one known to be destroyed by fire. Hina Keahi was well beloved by her +people and her lightest commands were obeyed meticulously. + +Food had always been plentiful in Hawaii. The people cultivated their +fields, which yielded bountifully. But one time the crops failed--grew +smaller and smaller--and began to shrivel up and die. Soon a famine +spread over the land. Crops were allowed to wholly perish because none +was strong enough to tend them. + +Hina Keahi saw that unless something was done at once her beloved +followers would all die. Calling them about her she commanded that an +immense imu be dug in the top of Halai Hill. "Prepare a place for each +kind of food as though you were ready to fill the imu, then bring as +much firewood as you can," she ordered. + +The starving people summoned new strength at this promise and worked +for many days preparing the enormous imu. Knowing a human sacrifice +would be offered as the only possible result of their labors, they +lived in fear and wondered who would be chosen. Still, they never once +thought of deserting their work and finally everything was in +readiness. + +"Fill the imu with wood and heat it," commanded Hina. + +As soon as this was done she turned to the wondering people and said: +"Listen to what I tell you, and follow my instructions. It is the only +way you can be saved from starvation. I will step into the imu and you +must quickly cover me with earth. Do not stop throwing earth over me +until the last puff of smoke disappears. In three days a woman will +appear at the edge of the imu and tell you what to do." + +Bidding them farewell, Hina Keahi stepped quickly into the red-hot +imu. Immediately a dense white cloud of smoke surrounded and concealed +her. For a moment the people stood transfixed at the sight; but +remembering instructions they at once began covering the imu with +earth. + +Followed then three long days of waiting fraught with mingled hopeful +expectancy and anxiety for their goddess. On the third day everyone +repaired to the edge of the imu and awaited the appearance of the +woman of whom Hina Keahi had spoken. + +In the meantime Hina Keahi had not remained in the imu for long. The +fire had not harmed her, for she had complete power over it. Going +underground she made her way toward the sea, coming to the surface of +the earth somewhere near the spot on which the Hilo Boarding School +stands today. The place was marked by a bubbling spring. + +Once more she disappeared underground and again came to the surface, +creating another spring near the present location of the Hilo Hotel. A +third time the goddess followed her subterranean route, coming up in a +third spring at the place now occupied by the American Factors' lumber +yard. Refreshing herself in the clear waters, she started back to her +home, this time traveling above ground. + +Thus on the third day from the disappearance of Hina Keahi those +gathered about the imu saw a strange woman approaching from the +direction of the sea. As she drew near they noticed a striking +resemblance to their own goddess, yet she, they knew, was buried in +the imu. In fear they drew away, but the strange woman smiled and told +them to uncover the imu. + +Reluctantly they set to work, dreading the sight which all had in +mind. But when the imu was uncovered they found it filled with cooked +food--enough to supply their needs until the rains came and new crops +could be grown and harvested. In gratitude they turned to thank the +strange woman, but she had vanished. + +And to this day one may see the immense imu in the top of Halai Hill, +now overgrown with a thicket of feathery bamboo, which the people left +open in memory of their timely deliverance. + + + + +HINA KULUUA. + + +Hina Kuluua was the second daughter of the goddess Hina, who lived +behind Rainbow Falls. Hina Keahi, the elder sister, had received the +best of the gifts which their mother could bestow--power over fire and +ownership of the largest of the Halai hills. Known as the goddess of +fire, Hina Keahi was indeed very powerful and one time gave +spectacular evidence of it in saving her people from starvation, as +told in the legend, Hina Keahi. + +Naturally everyone looked upon her thereafter as the most wonderful +goddess in the Islands. Even her sister's little band of followers did +not refrain from open admiration of the beautiful fire goddess. + +This made Hina Kuluua exceedingly angry. Her jealousy overwhelmed her; +she could not bear to let her sister claim so much glory, and she have +none at all. + +It was not long after this that another famine swept the land. Hina +Kuluua thought fortune was at last coming her way. Here was the very +opportunity she craved. Now she would prove her power superior to her +sister's and all the people would sing her praises and worship her +alone. + +In her excitement she entirely overlooked the fact that she was +goddess of rain, and not of fire. She ordered an immense imu to be dug +in her own hill, Puu Honu. Comprehending her intentions the people at +once realized the utter futility of her proposed action and pleaded +with her against it; but to no avail. + +"Do you mean to tell me that my power is less than Hina Keahi's?" she +demanded angrily. "Do you think that I, Hina Kuluua, cannot do as much +for my people in their time of need? I will show you! Then you shall +recognize Hina Kuluua as the greatest goddess in Hawaii." + +"You can help as well and perhaps better than your sister," they +argued, "but you cannot do it in the same way. Your power, though it +may be as great, is nevertheless entirely different from hers." + +Then Hina Kuluua would order them out of her sight and command them to +hurry the completion of the imu. + +At last all was ready. A group with tear-stained faces were gathered +about the smoking imu. Hina Kuluua approached, her head held high in +an air of triumph. She stepped to the edge of the imu, cast a glance +of disdain toward the wailing women and said, "Cover me quickly. Watch +near the imu and in three days a young woman will appear. She will +give you further instructions." + +Stepping into the imu she was quickly covered with soil. The people +had expected a cloud of smoke to appear, but were somewhat surprised +to see the little there already was become even thinner and dwindle +away to mere nothingness. + +Slowly the long days of waiting passed. The third day dawned. All +morning the people watched for signs from the imu. Late in the +afternoon found their vigilance unbroken; night closed in and still no +sign. Dawn once more, another day of anxiety. On the fifth day they +could no longer restrain themselves and cautiously uncovered the great +oven. + +A dark greyish cloud rose over the imu--that was all. Within, the +people could distinguish the charred remains of their proud goddess. +With reverence they covered the imu once more and carefully smoothed +it over. + +That is why today you cannot see a deep crater in Puu Honu as in +Halai, and why the dark, gloomy cloud--a sure sign of rain--often +hangs low over the one-time home of Hina Kuluua. + + + + +THE FIRST LAW. + + +Following one of his great victories King Kamehameha I established his +court on the largest island of the Hawaiian group, Hawaii, and +prepared to make his headquarters there for the time. Of course a +heiau must be built, and he ordered construction to begin immediately, +selecting a site near the mouth of the Wailuku where today stands the +armory of the National Guard of Hawaii. + +This heiau was unusually large and considerable time was consumed in +building it. Finally it was completed, but before it could be used the +customary human sacrifice had to be offered. Not willing to take one +of his own men, the king went in search of another. + +Early one morning, accompanied by a small body of his warriors, +Kamehameha set out in his canoe, sailing along the coast in the +direction of Puna. As the royal party neared Leleiwi Point, two +fishermen in a small outrigger were discovered, busy with their nets. +The king's big war canoe bore down upon them, but recognizing the +royal craft from afar, they paddled lustily for the shore. Knowing the +heiau was nearing completion the fishermen guessed the reason for the +king's early morning visit and had no intention of remaining to +receive him. + + [Illustration: Drawn by Will Herwig. Paradise Eng. + + "Mamalahoa Kanawai o na Alii" Kamehameha Called After Them.] + +Landing safely, yet with the prow of the big canoe not a spear's +length behind, the poor fellows made all speed over the open lava beds +that lie between the shore and the jungle at this point. The king, +standing in the bow of his canoe, was first ashore and in hot pursuit, +but, unfamiliar with the footing there, made poor progress. These lava +beds are full of treacherous pukas and into one of them Kamehameha +stumbled, sinking to his armpits. There chanced to be a sizeable stone +within reach of his hand, and this he hurled after the fleeing men, +but his aim was bad and he missed them. This very stone, and the hole +into which the king fell, may still be seen just mauka of Leleiwi +Point. + +Glancing over his shoulder, the hindmost fugitive observed the king +was trapped and that his retainers were still some distance to the +rear. Here was a chance for revenge. Swinging his heavy canoe paddle, +which he had been too frightened to drop, the fisherman turned and +dealt his majesty a cruel blow on the head and, leaving him for dead, +made off at top speed after his companion. + +When his men came up, the king was just regaining consciousness. One +look at their wounded monarch sent them like a pack of hungry wolves +after the fishermen. + +"Mamalahoa Kanawai o na alii!" Kamehameha called after them. "Whoever +purposely murders a fellowman shall be hanged." + +And thus the very first law was made in Hawaii. + +"Let them go," he said, as his men reluctantly abandoned the chase. "I +am not much harmed and they are badly frightened now. They may never +do violence again to anyone. If any man hereafter wilfully take the +life of another he shall be hanged. Come, let us go back. My heiau +will not require a human sacrifice, for it shall never be used." + +So it happened that this was the first heiau ever built without its +human sacrifice, and the last one constructed on the Island. Once the +law forbidding murder was enforced heiaus were no longer needed. + +For the first time on Hawaii trails became safe for travelers. Always +theretofore one never knew at what moment an enemy in ambush might rob +him or take his life. Women and children could now go abroad at all +times in safety. + +Peace reigned in the land and the people became more prosperous and +progressive. Years passed before the law was broken, and, true to his +word--for the king's word was law--Kamehameha ordered the murderer +hanged. The scene of his execution was the unusually crooked coconut +tree which until recent years stood near the present site of a cracker +factory on what is now Kamehameha Avenue. + +Today a careful observer may, by peering beneath the Armory Hall, make +out the few remaining stones which were once a part of the foundation +of the last heiau built on Hawaii. + +PAU. + + + + +HOW TAPA IS MADE. + + +This volume of Hawaiian Legends is bound in genuine tapa, a cloth--or +more properly speaking a strong paper--made by hand from the inner +bark of the wild mulberry. Briefly, the process of manufacture is as +follows: + +When full of glutinous sap, the bark of the mulberry is stripped and +steeped in running water until the outer layer is softened. This is +scraped away and the inner bark beaten with corrugated paddles of palm +wood until strips two or three inches broad are widened to ten or +twelve inches. + +The edges of these strips are then pasted together with a strong +vegetable glue and laminated with more beating. So skillfully is this +done that it is impossible to detect the lines of jointure. + +The tapa used in binding this book is of the stout, heavy grade; but +that used for clothing and scarfs is often as sheer as fine muslin. + +Tapa making is confined entirely to the women, men never occupying +themselves with any of its processes. + + + + +GLOSSARY + + +Hawaiian words may be easily pronounced correctly by using the Spanish +alphabet. There are no silent letters, and all syllables are stressed +equally. + +Alae (Hawaiian gallinule): Native bird figuring largely in Hawaiian +legends. + +Ao-opua: Talisman, guardian spirit. + +Haleakala: House (hale) of the Sun (la). + +Haole: White man. + +Hau: Native tree much favored for lanais (arbors) and the wood for +outriggers on canoes and floats for its cork-like lightness. (Hibiscus +arnottianus). + +Heiau: Ancient Hawaiian temple. + +Honu: Turtle, turtle-shaped. + +Imu: Underground stove made by scooping a hole in the ground, lining +it with rocks, and building a fire in it. The food to be cooked is +placed in the heated cavern, which is then covered tightly with leaves +and earth. + +Kaipaaloa: Inlet or estuary where the sea is quiet. + +Keahi: Of the fire. + +Kuluua: Of the (gentle) rain. + +Lauhala: Leaf (lau) of the puhala tree (Pandanus odoratissimus). + +Makai: Toward the sea. + +Malihini: Stranger, foreigner. + +Mamake: Shrub about ten feet high (Pipturus albidus). + +Mamalahoa kanawai o na alii: Your king proclaims this the law of the +land (free translation). + +Mauka: Toward the mountains. + +Olona: Native flax (Touchardia latifolia). + +Pahoehoe: The sterile, flintlike lava as distinguished from aa, the +friable and highly fertile lava. + +Pau: The end, finished. + +Pili: Grass yielding stout fibres (Andropogon contortus). + +Puka: Doorway, entrance, hole. + +Puu: Small hill, usually of rounded form. + +Ti (formerly written ki): Plant of lily family having bright green +leaves three feet long and six inches wide (Cordyline terminalis). + +Waianuenue: Shimmering waters, as a rainbow effect. + +Wauke: Native mulberry tree (Broussonetia papyrifera). + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Legends of Wailuku, by Charlotte Hapai + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LEGENDS OF WAILUKU *** + +***** This file should be named 29773.txt or 29773.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/9/7/7/29773/ + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive/American +Libraries.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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