5.  AIAI

Kuula and Hina live at Molopa, Nuuanu.  They possess a pearl fish hook called Kanoi, guarded by the bird Kamanuwai, who lives upon the aku fish caught by the magic hook.  When Kipapalaulu, king of Honolulu, steals the hook, the bird sleeps from hunger, hence the name of the locality.  Kaumakapili, “perching with closed eyes.”  Hina bears an abortive child which she throws into the water.  It drifts to a rock below the Hoolilimanu bridge and floats there.  This child is Aiai.  The king’s daughter discovers it, brings up the child, and when he becomes a handsome youth, she marries him.  One day she craves the aku fish.  Her husband, Aiai, persuades her to beg the stolen hook of her father.  Thus he secures the hook and returns it to its bird guardian.[1]

[Footnote 1:  Compare the fishhook Pahuhu in Nihoalaki; the leho shells in Iwa, and the pearl fishhook of Kona in Kaulanapokii.  In Thrum’s story from Moke Manu (p. 230) Aiai is the son of the fish god, Kuula, and, like his father, acts as a culture hero who locates the fishing grounds and teaches the art of making fish nets for various kinds of fishes.  The hero of this story is Aiai’s son, Puniaiki.]

6.  PUNIAIKI

The handsome son of Kuupia and of Halekou of Kaneohe, Oahu, who nurses Uhumakaikai, the parent of all the fishes, is furnished with whatever fish he wants.  He marries Kaalaea, a handsome and well-behaved woman of the district, who brings him no dowry, but to whom he and his father make gifts according to custom.  With his mother’s permission he goes to live in her home, but the aunt insults him because he does nothing but sleep.  The family offer to kill her, but he broods over his wrong, leaves for Kauai, and, on a wager, bids his mother use her influence to send the fish thither.  They come just in time to save his life and to win for him the island of Kauai.  But his pet fish laments his unfaithfulness to his home, he takes it up and kisses it and returns to Oahu.

7.  PIKOIAKAALALA

Raven is the father, Koukou the mother, Hat and Bat the sisters, and Pikoiakaalala the brother of the rat family of Wailua, Kauai, who change into human beings.  The sisters marry men of note.  Pikoiakaalala wins in his first attempt to float the Koieie board, then follows it down the rapids and swims to Oahu.  Here he beats Mainele, the champion rat shooter, by summoning the rats in a chant and then shooting ten rats and one bat at once.  Then he defeats him in a riddling contest in which the play turns upon the word rat.  On Hawaii the king, Keawenuiaumi, wants the birds shot because they deceive his canoe builders and prevent any trees from being felled.  Pikoiakaalala succeeds in shooting them by watching their reflection in a basin of water.

8.  KAWELO