Kukaniloko, in the uplands of Wahiawa, where Laielohelohe is concealed by her foster father, is one of the most sacred places on Oahu.  Its fame is coupled with that of Holoholoku in Wailua, Kauai, as one of the places set apart for the birthplace of chiefs.  Tradition says that since a certain Kapawa, grandson of a chief from “Tahiti” in the far past, was born upon this spot, a special divine favor has attended the birth of chiefs upon this spot.  Stones were laid out right and left with a mound for the back, the mother’s face being turned to the right.  Eighteen chiefs stood guard on either hand.  Then the taboo drum sounded and the people assembled on the east and south to witness the event.  Say the Hawaiians, “If one came in confident trust and lay properly upon the supports, the child would be born with honor; it would be called a divine chief, a burning fire."[1] Even Kamehameha desired that his son Liholiho’s birth should take place at Kukaniloko.  Situated as it is upon the breast of the bare uplands between the Koolau and Waianae Ranges, the place commands a view of surprising breadth and beauty.  Though the stones have been removed, through the courtesy of the management of the Waialua plantation a fence still marks this site of ancient interest.

The famous hill Kauwiki, where the seer built the temple to his god, and where Hina watched the clouds drift toward her absent lover, lies at the extreme eastern end of Maui.  About this hill clusters much mythic lore of the gods.  Here the heavens lay within spear thrust to earth, and here stood Maui, whose mother is called Hina, to thrust them apart.  Later, Kauwiki was the scene of the famous resistance to the warriors of Umi, and in historic times about this hill for more than half a century waged a rivalry between the warriors of Hawaii and Maui.  The poet of the Kualii mentions the hill thrice—­once in connection with the legend of Maui, once when he likens the coming forth of the sun at Kauwiki to the advent of Ku, and in a descriptive passage in which the abrupt height is described: 

  Shooting up to heaven is Kauwiki,
  Below is the cluster of islands,
  In the sea they are gathered up,
  O Kauwiki,
  O Kauwiki, mountain bending over,
  Loosened, almost falling, Kauwiki-e.

Finally, Puna, the easternmost district of the six divisions of Hawaii, is a region rich in folklore.  From the crater of Kilauea, which lies on the slope of Mauna Loa about 4,000 feet above sea level, the land slopes gradually to the Puna coast along a line of small volcanic cones, on the east scarcely a mile from the sea.  The slope is heavily forested, on the uplands with tall hard-wood trees of ohia, on the coast with groves of pandanus.  Volcanic action has tossed and distorted the whole district.  The coast has sunk, leaving tree trunks erect in the sea.  Above the bluffs of the south coast lie great bowlders tossed up by tidal waves.  Immense earthquake fissures occur.  The soil is fresh lava