3.  LAUKIAMANUIKAHIKI

Makiioeoe, king of Kuaihelani, has an amour with Hina on Kauai and, returning home, leaves with Hina his whale-tooth necklace and feather cloak to recognize the child by, and bids that his daughter be sent to him with the full equipment of a chief.  Meanwhile he prepares a bathing pool, plants a garden, and taboos both for his daughter’s arrival.  Laukiamanuikahiki is abused by her supposed father, and, discovering the truth, starts out under her mother’s direction to find her real father.  With the help of her grandmother she reaches Kuaihelani.  Here she bathes in the taboo pool and plucks the taboo flowers.  She is about to be slain for this act when her aunt, in the form of an owl, proclaims her name, and the chief recognizes his daughter.  Her beauty shines like a light.  Kahikiula, her half brother, on a visit to his father, becomes her lover.  When he returns to his wife, Kahalaokolepuupuu in Kahikiku, she follows in the shape of an old woman called Lupewale.  Although her lover recognizes her, she is treated like a servant.  In revenge she calls upon the gods to set fire to the dance house, and burns all inside.  Kahikiula now begs her to stay, but she leaves him and returns to Kuaihelani.

4.  HOAMAKEIKEKULA

“Companion-in-suffering-on-the-plain” is a beautiful woman of Kohala, Hawaii, born at Oioiapaiho, of parents of high rank, Hooleipalaoa and Pili.  As she is in the form of an ala stone, she is cast out upon the trash; but her aunt has a dream, rescues her through a rainbow which guides her to the place, and wraps her in red tapa cloth.  In 20 days she is a beautiful child.  Until she is 20 she lives under a strict taboo; then, as she strings lehua blossoms in the woods, the elepaio bird comes in the form of a handsome man and carries her away in a fog to be the bride of Kalamaula, chief’s son of Kawaihae.  She asks for 30 days to consider it, and dreams each night of a handsome man, with whom she falls in love.  She runs away and, accompanied by a rainbow, wanders in the uplands of Pahulumoa until Puuhue finds her and carries her home to his lord, the king of Kohala, Puuonale, who turns out to be the man of her dream.  Her first child is the image Alelekinakina.

5.  KAPUAOKAOHELOAI

When Ku and Hina are living at Waiakea, Hilo, they have two children, a boy called Hookaakaaikapakaakaua and a lovely girl named Kapuaokaoheloai.  They are brought up apart and virgin, without being permitted to see each other, until one day the sister discovers the brother by the bright light that shines from his house, and outwits the attendants.  The two are discovered and banished.  Attendants of the king of Kuaihelani find the girl and, because she is so beautiful, carry her back with them to be the king’s wife.  Her virginity is tested and she slips on the platform, is wounded in the virgin’s bathing pool, and slips on the bank getting out.  Her