r is called _kumu-hula_.]

[Footnote 25: _Kanaloa_. Kane, Ku, Kanaloa, and Lono were the
major gods of the Hawaiian pantheon.]

[Footnote 27: _Ku-pulupulu_. A god of the canoe-makers.]

[Footnote 28: _Kini Akua_. A general expression--often used
together with the ones that follow--meaning the countless
swarms of brownies, elfs, kobolds, sprites, and other
godlings (mischievous imps) that peopled the wilderness.
_Kini_ means literally 40,000, _lehu_ 400,000, and _mano_
4,000. See the _Pule Kuahu_--altar-prayer--on page 21. The
Hawaiians, curiously enough, did not put the words _mano_,
_kini_, and _lehu_ in the order of their numerical value.]

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HALA-PEPE (DRACAENA AUREA) ]

Kapo was sister of Pele and the daughter of Haumea.[29] Among
other roles played by her, like Laka she was at times a
sylvan deity, and it was in the garb of woodland
representations that she was worshiped by hula folk. Her
forms of activity, corresponding to her different
metamorphoses, were numerous, in one of which she was at
times "employed by the _kahuna_[30] as a messenger in their
black arts, and she is claimed by many as an _aumakua,_" [31]
said to be the sister of Kalai-pahoa, the poison god.

[Footnote 29: _Haumea_. The ancient goddess, or ancestor, the
sixth in line of descent from Wakea.]

[Footnote 30: _Kahuna._ A sorcerer; with a qualifying
adjective it meant a skilled craftsman; _Kahuna-kalai-wa'a_
was a canoe-builder; _kahuna lapaau_ was a medicine-man, a
doctor, etc.]

[Footnote 31: The Lesser Gods of Hawaii, a paper by Joseph S.
Emerson, read before the Hawaiian Historical Society, April
7, 1892.]

Unfortunately Kapo had an evil name on account of a
propensity which led her at times to commit actions that seem
worthy only of a demon of lewdness. This was, however, only
the hysteria of a moment, not the settled habit of her life.
On one notable occasion, by diverting the attention of the
bestial pig-god Kama-pua'a, and by vividly presenting to him
a temptation well adapte