al uncles and by his father, who never comes near the taboo
house, which only his mother shares with him. His signs are those of the
rainstorm--thunder, lightning, torrents of "red rain," high seas, and
long-continued mists--these he inherits from his father. An ancestress
rears Rainbow in the forests of Puna. Birds bear her upon their wings
and serve her with abundance of food prepared without labor, and of
their golden feathers her royal house is built; sweet-scented vines and
blossoms surround her; mists shroud her when she goes abroad. Earthquake
guards her dwelling, saves Rainbow from Lightning, who seeks to destroy
her, and bears a messenger to fetch the Sun-at-high-noon as bridegroom
for the beautiful Rainbow. The Sun god comes to earth and bears Rainbow
away with him to the heavens, but later he loves her sister Twilight,
follows her to earth, and is doomed to sink into Night.

_Footnotes to Section II, 5: The Story: Its Mythical Character_

[Footnote 1: As such Paliuli occurs in other Hawaiian folk tales:

1. At Paliuli grew the mythical trees Makali'i, male and female, which
have the power to draw fish. The female was cut down and taken to
Kailua, Oahu, hence the chant:

"Kupu ka laau ona a Makali'i,
O Makali'i, laau Kaulana mai ka pomai."

2. In the Fornander notes from Kepelino and Kamakau, Paliuli is the land
given to the first man and is called "hidden land of Kane" and "great
land of the gods." 3. In Fornander's story of _Kepakailiula_, the gods
assign Paliuli to be the hero's home. To reach it the party start at
second cockcrow from Keaau (as in the _Laieikawai_) and arrive in the
morning. It is "a good land, flat, fertile, filled with many things
desired by man." The native apples are as large as breadfruit. They see
a pond "lying within the land stocked with all kinds of fish of the sea
except the whale and the shark." Here "the sugar cane grew until it lay
flat, the hogs until the tusks were long, the chickens until the spurs
were long and sharp, and the dogs until their backs were flattened out."
They leave Paliuli to travel over Hawaii, and "no man has ever seen it
since."

4. In Fornander's story of _Kana_, Uli, the grandmother of Kana, goes up
to Paliuli to dig up the double canoe Kaumaielieli in which Kana is to
sail to recover his mother. The chant in which this canoe is described
is used to-day by practicers of sorcery to exorcise an enemy.]

[Footnote 2: The gods Kane and Kanal