the rainstorm—­thunder, lightning, torrents of “red rain,” high seas, and long-continued mists—­these he inherits from his father.  An ancestress rears Rainbow in the forests of Puna.  Birds bear her upon their wings and serve her with abundance of food prepared without labor, and of their golden feathers her royal house is built; sweet-scented vines and blossoms surround her; mists shroud her when she goes abroad.  Earthquake guards her dwelling, saves Rainbow from Lightning, who seeks to destroy her, and bears a messenger to fetch the Sun-at-high-noon as bridegroom for the beautiful Rainbow.  The Sun god comes to earth and bears Rainbow away with him to the heavens, but later he loves her sister Twilight, follows her to earth, and is doomed to sink into Night.

Footnotes to Section II, 5:  The Story:  Its Mythical Character

[Footnote 1:  As such Paliuli occurs in other Hawaiian folk tales: 

1.  At Paliuli grew the mythical trees Makali’i, male and female, which have the power to draw fish.  The female was cut down and taken to Kailua, Oahu, hence the chant: 

  “Kupu ka laau ona a Makali’i,
   O Makali’i, laau Kaulana mai ka pomai.”

2.  In the Fornander notes from Kepelino and Kamakau, Paliuli is the land given to the first man and is called “hidden land of Kane” and “great land of the gods.” 3.  In Fornander’s story of Kepakailiula, the gods assign Paliuli to be the hero’s home.  To reach it the party start at second cockcrow from Keaau (as in the Laieikawai) and arrive in the morning.  It is “a good land, flat, fertile, filled with many things desired by man.”  The native apples are as large as breadfruit.  They see a pond “lying within the land stocked with all kinds of fish of the sea except the whale and the shark.”  Here “the sugar cane grew until it lay flat, the hogs until the tusks were long, the chickens until the spurs were long and sharp, and the dogs until their backs were flattened out.”  They leave Paliuli to travel over Hawaii, and “no man has ever seen it since.”

4.  In Fornander’s story of Kana, Uli, the grandmother of Kana, goes up to Paliuli to dig up the double canoe Kaumaielieli in which Kana is to sail to recover his mother.  The chant in which this canoe is described is used to-day by practicers of sorcery to exorcise an enemy.]

[Footnote 2:  The gods Kane and Kanaloa, who live in the mountains of Oahu, back of Honolulu, prepare a home for the first-born son of Ku and Hina, whom they send Rainbow to fetch from Nuumealani.  The messenger, first gaining the consent of the lizard guardian at Kuaihelani, brings back Child-adopted-by-the-gods to the gods on Oahu.  Again Hina bears a child, a daughter.  For this girl also the gods send two sister messengers, who bring Paliuli to Waka, where she cares for the birds in the forests of Puna.  Here a beautiful home is prepared for the girl and a garden planted with two magical food-producing trees,