[Footnote:  1 This means literally “to travel over land and sea.” (See Malo, p. 316.) The song runs: 

  “Wahilani, king of Oahu. 
   Who sailed away to Kahiki,
   To the islands of Moananuiakea,
   To trample the breasts of Kane and Kanaloa.”]

2.  KAMAPUAA

This demigod, half man, half hog, lives in Kaliuwaa valley, Oahu, in the reign of Olopana.[1] His father is Kahikiula, his mother, Hina, his brother, Kahikihonuakele.  He robs Olopana’s chicken roosts, is captured, swung on a stick, and carried in triumph until his grandmother sings a chant which gives him supernatural strength to slay his enemies.  Four times he is captured and four times escapes, killing all of Olopana’s men but Makalii.  Then he flees up the valley Kaliuwaa and lets his followers climb up over his back to the top of the cliff, except his grandmother, who insists upon climbing up his front.  He flees to Wahiawa, loses his strength by eating food spelled with the letters lau, but eventually becomes lord of Oahu.  In Kahiki, his father-in-law, Kowea, has a rival, Lonokaeho, who in his supernatural form has eight foreheads as sharp as an ax.  Kamapuaa chants to his gods, and the weeds Puaakukui, Puaatihaloa, and Puaamaumau grow over the foreheads.  Thus snared, Lonokaeho is slain.  Kamapuaa also defeats Kuilioloa, who has the form of a dog.

The story next describes the struggle between Pele and the pig god.  Kamapuaa goes to Kilauea on Hawaii and stands on a point of land overlooking the pit called Akanikolea.  Below sit Pele and her sisters stringing wreaths.  Kamapuaa derides Pele’s red eyes and she in revenge tells him he is a hog, his nose pierced with a cord, his face turned to the ground and a tail that wags behind.  When he retaliates she is so angry that she calls out to her brothers to start the fires.  Kamapuaa’s love-making god, Lonoikiaweawealoha, decoys the brothers to the lowlands.  Then Pele bids her sisters and uncles to keep up the fire, but Kamapuaa’s sister, Keliiomakahanaloa, protects him with cloud and rain.  Kamapuaa takes his hog form, and hogs overrun the place; Pele is almost dead.  Then the love-making god restores her, she fills up the pit again with fire; but Kamapuaa calls for the same plants as before, which are his supernatural bodies, to choke out the flames.  At length peace is declared and Pele takes Puna, Kau, and Kona districts, while Kamapuaa takes Hilo, Hamakua, and Kohala. (Hence the former districts are overrun with lava flows; the latter escape.)

Next Kamapuaa gets Kahikikolo for a war club.  Makalii, king of Kauai, is fighting Kaneiki.  After Kamapuaa has killed two warriors and driven away two spear throwers, he reveals himself to Makalii, who prostrates himself.  Kamapuaa recounts the names of over fifty heroes whom he has slain and boasts of his amours.  He spares Makalii on condition that he chant the name song in his honor, and spares his own father, brother, and mother.  Later he pays a visit to his parents at Kalalau, but has to chant his name song to gain recognition.  This angers him so much that he can be pacified only when Hina, his mother, chants all the songs in honor of his name.  By and by he goes away to Kahiki with Kowea.[1]