The hula pua'a seems to have been native to Kauai. The author
has not been able to learn of its performance within historic
times on any other island.

The student of Hawaiian mythology naturally asks whether the
hula pua'a concerned itself with the doings of the
mythological hog-deity Kama-pua'a whose amour with Pele was
the scandal of Hawaiian mythology. It takes but a superficial
reading of the mele to answer this question in the
affirmative.

The following mele, or oli more properly, which was used in
connection with the hula pua'a, is said to have been the
joint production of two women, the daughters of a famous bard
named Kana, who was the reputed brother of Limaloa
(long-armed), a wonder-working hero who piled up the clouds
in imitation of houses and mountains and who produced the
mirage:

_Oli_

Ko'i maka nui,[439]
Ike ia na pae moku,
Na moku o Mala-la-walu,[440]
Ka noho a Ka-maulu-a-niho,
5 Kupuna o Kama-pua'a.
[Page 229] Ike ia ka hono a Pii-lani;[441]
Ku ka paoa i na mokupuni.
Ua puni au ia Pele,
Ka u'i noho mau i Kilauea,
10 Anau hewa i ke a o Puna.
Keiki kolohe a Ku ame Hina--[442]
Hina ka opua, kau i ke olewa,
Ke ao pua'a[443] maalo i Haupu.
Haku'i ku'u manao e hoi[444] i Kahiki;
15 Pau ole ka'u hoohihi ia Hale-ma'u-ma'u,[445]
I ka pali kapu a Ka-moho-alii.[446]
Kela kuahiwi a mau a ke ahi.
He manao no ko'u e noho pu;
Pale 'a mai e ka hilahila,
20 I ka hakukole ia mai e ke Akua wahine
Pale oe, pale au, iloko o ka hilahila;
A hilahila wale ia iho no e oe;
Nau no ia hale i noho.[447]
Ka hana ia a ke Ko'i maka nui,
25 Ike ia na pae moku.
He hiapo[448] au na Olopana,
He hi'i-alo na Ku-ula,
Ka mea nana na haka moa;
[Page 230] Noho i ka uka o Ka-liu-wa'a;[449]
30 Ku'u wa'a ia ho'i i Kahiki.
Pau ia ike ana ia Hawaii,
Ka aina a ke Akua