In Hawaii the system was very elaborately developed. The month had thirty days; 17 of these had compound names (_inoa huhui_), and 13 had simple names (_inoa pakahi_). These names were given to the different nights to correspond with the phases of the moon. There were three phases--_ano_--, marking the moon’s increase and decrease of size, (1) the first appearance of the new moon in the west at evening, (2) the time of full moon when it stood directly overhead (lit. over the island) at midnight, (3) the period when the moon was waning, when it shewed itself in the east late at night. It was with reference to these three phases of the moon that names were given to the nights that made up the month[688]. In former times there is said to have been a division of the month into periods of ten days, corresponding to the increase, the full, and the decline of the moon[689]. The names of the nights were:--1, _hilo_, ‘to twist’, because the part then seen was a mere thread; 2, _hoaka_, ‘crescent’; 3, _kukahi_; 4, _kulua_; 5, _kukolu_; 6, _kupua_; 7, _olekukahi_; 8, _olekulua_; 9, _olekukolu_; 10, _olekupau_. When the sharp points were lost in the moon’s first quarter, the name of that night was 11, _huna_, ‘to conceal’; the next, on its becoming gibbous, was 12, _mohalu_; 13, _hua_, ‘egg’; and when its roundness was quite obvious, 14, _akua_, ‘God’. The nights in which the moon was full or nearly so were:--15, _hoku_; 16, _marealaui_; 17, _kolu_. The night in which the moon’s decrease became perceptible was called 18, _laaukukahi_. As it continued to diminish the nights were called:--19, _olaaukulua_; 20, _laaupau_; 21, _olekukahi_; 22, _olekulua_; 23, _olepau_; 24, _kaloakukahi_; 25, _kaloakulua_; 26, _kaloapau_; when the moon was very small, 27, _mauli_; the night in which it disappeared, 28, _muku_. This is Dibble’s list (pp. 24 ff.). Fornander (p. 126) counts in the same way up to 26, _kaloapau_, and then continues, 27, _kaue_; 28, _lono_; 29, _mauli_; 30, _muku_. Malo gives the same names as Dibble, with the following additions:--The 15th night had two names. If the moon set before daylight it was called _hoku palemo_, ‘sinking star’, but if, when daylight came, it was still above the horizon, it was called _hoku ili_, ‘stranded star’. The second of the nights in which the moon did not set until after sunrise (the 16th) was called _mahealaui_. When the moon’s rising was delayed until after the darkness had set in, it was called 17, _kulua_, and the second of the nights in which the moon made its appearance after dark was 18, _laau-ku-kahi_; the moon had now waned so much as again to shew sharp horns. The night when the moon rose at dawn of day was _kane_ (the 27th), and the following night, in which the moon rose only as the day was breaking, _lono_ (the 28th). When the moon delayed its rising until daylight had come, it was called _mauli_ (the 29th), ‘fainting’, and when its rising was so late that