[Footnote 1:  This is not the Olopana of Hawaii.]

3.  KAINA

The first-born of Hakalanileo and Hina is born in the form of a rope at Hamakualoa, Maui, in the house Halauoloolo, and brought up by his grandmother, Uli, at Piihonua, Hilo.  He grows so long that the house has to be lengthened from mountain to sea to hold him.  When the bold Kapepeekauila, who lives on the strong fortress of Haupu, Molokai, carries away Hina on his floating hill, Hakalanileo seeks first his younger son, Niheu, the trickster, then his terrible son Kana, to beseech their aid in recovering her.  From Uli, Kana secures the canoe Kaumaielieli, which is buried at Paliuli, and the expedition sets forth, bearing Kana stretched in the canoe like a long package to conceal his presence, Niheu with his war club Wawaikalani, and the father Hakalanileo, with their equipment of paddlers.  The Molokai chief has been warned by his priest Moi’s dream of defeat, but, refusing to believe him, sends Kolea and Ulili to act as scouts.  As the canoe approaches, he sends the scoutfish Keauleinakahi to stop it, but Niheu kills the warrior with his club.  When a rock is rolled down the cliff to swamp it, Kana stops it with his hand and slips a small stone under to hold it up.  Niheu meanwhile climbs the cliff, enters the house Halehuki, seizes Hina and makes off with her.  But Hina has told her new lover that Niheu’s strength lies, in his hair, so Kolea and Ulili fly after and lay hold of the intruder’s hair.  Niheu releases Hina and returns unsuccessful.  Kana next tries his skill.  He stretches upward, but the hill rises also until he is spun out into a mere cobweb and is famishing with hunger.  Niheu advises him to lean over to Hawaii that his grandmother may feed him.  After three days, this advice reaches his ear and he bends over Haleakala mountain on Maui, where the groove remains to this day, and puts his head in at the door of his grandmother’s house in Hawaii, where he is fed until he is fat again.  Niheu, left behind in the boat, sees his brother’s feet growing fat, and finally cuts off one to remind Kana of the business in hand.  Now the hill Haupu is really a turtle.  Uli tells Kana that if he breaks the turtle’s flippers it can no longer grow higher.  Thus Kana succeeds in destroying the hill Haupu and winning Hina back to his father.[2]

[Footnote 1:  This is only a fragment of the very popular story of the pig god.  For Pele, see Ellis, IV.  For both Pele and Kamapuaa, Emerson, Unwritten Literature, pp. 25, 85, 180, 228; and Pele and Hiiaka; Thrum, pp. 36, 193; and Daggett, who places the beginning of the Pele worship in the twelfth century.]

[Footnote 2:  Rev. A.O.  Forbes’s version of this story is printed in Thrum, p. 63.  See also Daggett.  They differ only in minor detail.  Uli’s chant of the canoe is used by sorcerers to exorcise the spirits, and Uli is the special god of the priests who use sorcery.]

4.  KAPUNOHU