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
We will here see how Namakaokahai ill-treated her own cousins, her own
flesh and blood. When Namakaokahai’s anger was aroused she seized her
cousins and gave them a severe beating. When the brothers saw this they
jumped in to help the girls, but this interference was of no avail, for
Namakaokahai gave her brothers some of the beating, and she gave them
so much that they all had a hard time to save themselves. Because of
this the cousins rose and departed to some other place to dwell; but
Namakaokahai followed them and again drove them away. The cousins in
the meantime thought that she would forget the cause of her anger, but
she followed after them and drove them away from their new home. At
this persistency on their cousin’s part, they vowed that they would
never again turn back, nor ever again live in the same land with their
cousin. At this expulsion, the two sisters studied where they would
move to, and after considering several places they decided on Kauai and
there make their future home. In this journey, when they reached Kauai,
[105] where they made their home, they had an idea that their cousin
would leave them in peace and not follow them up. The place where Pele
and Hiiaka took up as their first home on Kauai was at Puukapele, a
place to the east of Mana. When they settled at this place they started
a fire whose glare was seen from the high peaks in the land of
Nuumealani, where Namakaokahai was stationed on the lookout for her
cousins. The height of these peaks was probably as high as that of
Kaala mountain.
When Namakaokahai saw the glare of the fire on Kauai, she knew that
Pele and Hiiaka were there, so she followed on to Kauai where she met
her cousins and another fight was had. In this fight Pele and Hiiaka
almost overcame their cousin, but being possessed of great strength
Namakaokahai was enabled to overcome her cousins. Therefore, being
driven from their Kauai home, they journeyed on to Oahu where they
settled. Because of the fight that took place on Kauai, the land in
which it occurred was called Puukapele, and it is so to this day.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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