iginally from Kahiki, he had at least
visited there.]
[Footnote 445: _Hale-ma'u-ma'u_. This was an ancient lava-cone
which until within a few years continued to be the most
famous fire-lake in the caldera of Kilauea. It was so called,
probably, because the roughness of its walls gave it a
resemblance to one of those little shelters made from rough
_ama'u_ fern such as visitors put up for temporary
convenience. The word has not the same pronunciation and is
not to be confounded with that other word _mau_, meaning
everlasting.]
[Footnote 446: _Kamoho-ali'i_. The brother of Pele; in one
metamorphosis he took the form of a shark. A high point in
the northwest quarter of the wall of Kilauea was considered
his special residence and regarded as so sacred that no smoke
or flame from the volcano ever touched it. He made his abode
chiefly In the earth's underground caverns, through which the
sun made its nightly transit from West back to the East. He
often retained the orb of the day to warm and illumine his
abode. On one such occasion the hero Mawi descended into this
region and stole away the sun that his mother Hina might have
the benefit of its heat in drying her tapas.]
[Footnote 447: _Hale i noho_. The word _hale_, meaning house,
is frequently used metaphorically for the human body,
especially that of a woman. Pele thus acknowledges her amour
with Kama-pua'a.]
[Footnote 448: _Hiapo_. A firstborn child. Legends are at
variance with one another as to the parentage of Kama-pua'a.
According to the legend referred to previously, Kama-pua'a
was the son of Olopana's wife Hina, his true father being
Kahiki-ula, the brother of Olopana. Olopana seems to have
treated him as his own son. After Kama-pua'a's robbery of his
mother's henroosts, Olopana chased the thief into the
mountains and captured him. Kama eventually turned the tables
against his benefactor and caused the death of Olopana
through the treachery of a priest in a heiau; he was offered
up on the altar as a sacrifice.]
[Footnote 449: _Ka-liu-wa'a_. The bilge of the
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