Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 1 (of 3) : $b The Hawaiians' account of the formation of their islands and origin of their race, with the traditions of their migrations, etc., as gathered from original sources
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Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 1 (of 3) : $b The Hawaiians' account of the formation of their islands and origin of their race, with the traditions of their migrations, etc., as gathered from original sources
Folklore -- Hawaii; Hawaii -- Social life and customs; Hawaiian language -- Texts; Legends -- Hawaii
After Laamaikahiki arrived at Tahiti upon his return from his first
visit to Hawaii, he heard through Hawena that Moikeha had died; so he
decided to come for the bones of Moikeha his father. Laamaikahiki soon
after set sail for Hawaii and first appeared off the Kau coast, and by
evening of the same day had his canoe moored on the beach at Kailikii.
The following story is told of his arrival at Kau.
Late in the evening the people of Kau heard the beating of a drum
together with the notes of a kaeke [126] flute, which startled them and
they rushed out to see where these sounds came from. When they got
outside they saw that these sounds came from aboard of a double canoe.
Upon seeing this the people remarked: “It is the canoe of the god
Kupulupulu. These sounds came from that canoe.” When the people heard
that it was Kupulupulu’s canoe they prepared food and swine as
offerings to the god. As soon as it was daylight the next day the canoe
and the people on it were seen, and the people ashore cried out: “Ye
makers of the sounds, here is food and swine; they are offerings for
the god.”
Laamakahiki, however, did not make a long stay at Kailikii, when he
again set sail, coming along the Kona coast. On this passage from Kau
to Kona, Laamakahiki continued to beat the drum and play on the flute,
and he was accorded the same treatment by the Kona people as was given
him by the people of Kau. It was on this visit that hula dancing,
accompanied by the drum, is said to have been introduced in Hawaii by
Laamaikahiki.
Laamaikahiki, after receiving food and swine from the Kona people,
continued on his journey to Kauai where he met his brother [127] Kila
and made arrangements as to the taking of the bones of Moikeha to
Tahiti. Soon after these arrangements were made the bones of Moikeha
were brought from Haena. On this occasion Laamaikahiki made a long
visit on Kauai and occupied his time in teaching the people the art of
dancing. From Kauai Laamaikahiki visited all the other islands of this
group for the purpose of teaching the people the drum dance.
Soon after Laamaikahiki’s return to Kauai from his tour of the other
islands, he made ready for his return to Tahiti, taking with him his
brother Kila and the bones of their father [128] which were to be
deposited in the mountain of Kapaahu, Moikeha’s own inheritance, where
Laamaikahiki and Kila also lived until their death. Nothing more was
heard of these two since that time.
CHAPTER X.
THE STORY OF OLOPANA AND HIS WIFE.
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