longing;
He sent him to the twofold heavens,
To his grandparents, Night and Day,
To the house whence drops fall spear-shaped,
To hear their counsel and return.
Aloalo entered the house,
Took not the unlucky fishhook,
Brought away that of good luck,"
etc.]

[Footnote 3: Kraemer, Samoa Inseln, pp. 44, 115; Fison, pp. 16,
139-161, 163; Lesson, II, 272, 483 (see index); Mariner, II, 100, 102,
115, et seq.; Moerenhout, I, 432; Gracia, p. 40; Turner, Nineteen Years
in Polynesia, p. 237; Gill, Myths and Songs, pp. 152-172.

In Fison's story (p. 139) the gods dwell in Bulotu, "where the sky meets
the waters in the climbing path of the sun." The story goes: "In the
beginning there was no land save that on which the gods lived; no dry
land was there for men to dwell upon; all was sea; the sky covered it
above and bounded it on every side. There was neither day nor night, but
a mild light shone continually through the sky upon the water, like the
shining of the moon when its face is hidden by a white cloud."]

5. THE STORY: ITS MYTHICAL CHARACTER

These mythical tales of the gods are reflected in Haleole's romance of
_Laieikawai_. Localized upon Hawaii, it is nevertheless familiar with
regions of the heavens. Paliuli, the home of Laieikawai, and
Pihanakalani, home of the flute-playing high chief of Kauai, are
evidently earthly paradises.[1] Ask a native where either of these
places is to be found and he will say, smiling, "In the heavens." The
long lists of local place names express the Polynesian interest in local
journeyings. The legend of _Waiopuka_ is a modern or at least adapted
legend. But the route which the little sister follows to the heavens
corresponds with Polynesian cosmogonic conceptions, and is true to
ancient stories of the home of the gods.

The action of the story, too, is clearly concerned with a family of
demigods. This is more evident if we compare a parallel story translated
by Westervelt in "Gods and Ghosts," page 116, which, however confused
and fragmentary, is clearly made up of some of the same material as
Haleole's version.[2]

The main situation in this story furnishes a close parallel to the
_Laieikawai_ A beautiful girl of high rank is taken from her parents and
brought up apart in an earthly paradise by a supernatural guardian,
Waka, where she is waited upon by birds. A great lizard acts as her
protector. She is wedded to a high taboo chief who is fetched thi