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Title: Pele and Hiiaka : a myth from Hawaii
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Emerson, Nathaniel Bright, 1839-1915
Subjects: Legends -- Hawaii
Publisher: (Honolulu) : Printed by Honolulu Star-Bulletin Limited
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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ity; at the sametime she could not consent to his proposition. In this dilemmashe did her best to soothe his feelings and reconcile him to hislot: Kuu Akua i ka hale hau,Hale kanaka ole,E noho i ke kai o Maa-kua,Alae ia e ke ki ohuohu, e!Penei wale no ka iki Akua.Auwe, kuu Akua, e! TRANSLATION My god of the chilly mansion,—A house without human tenant, —Abide yet the blasts of the sea,The slap of the broad leafy ti.Such the advice of a lesser god:My tender farewell this to Thee. Kauhi was indignant at this evasive dismissal of his entreaty.The thought that Hiiaka should countenance his perpetual im-prisonment in the bleak cliff filled him with rage. With a mightyeffort he lifted himself and tore away the covering of tree-roots,earth and rocks that embraced him until he came to a crouchingposition. That was the limit of his power: he could do no more.A stony form in the mountain wall of Kahana, resembling theshape of a man on all-fours, remains to vouch for the truth ofthis legend.
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Pele and Hiiaka—A Myth 97 CHAPTER XXI(^) HIIAKA DESCRIBES THE SCENE BEFORE HER Hiiaka constantly showed a lively interest in the important fea-tures of the landscape, often addressing them as if they had beensentient beings. At Kai-papau, looking out upon cape Lani-loa,she greeted it as if it had been an old friend of the family: Lele Lani-loa ; ua malie ;Ke hoe ae la ka Moae,Ahu kai i na pall;Kaikoo lalo, e.Ua pii kai i uka, e. TRANSLATION Fly Lani-loa, fly in the calm.At the moaning of Moae,(a)Mist veils the mountain walls.The breakers roll ever below,While Ocean climbs to the hills. They passed through the lands of Laie, Malae-kahana andKeana and at Kahipa they saw the crouching figures of Puna-hee-lapa and Pahi-pahi-alua, who stole away into the shelterof the pandanus groves without deigning to give them any salu-tation. At this show of disrespect, Hiiaka called out: Komo i ka nahele ulu hinalo,Nahele hala o Poo-kaha-lulu ;Oia nahele hala makai o Kahuku.Heaha la hoi ka hala(A)I

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