Aloha Allure

ACCORDING to Hawaiian myth, Pele, the volcanic fire-queen and the chief architect of the Hawaiian group, was a foreigner, born in the mystical land of Kuai-he-lani, a land not rooted and anchored to one spot, but that floated free like the Fata Morgana, and that showed itself at times to the eyes of mystics, poets and seers, a garden land, clad with the living glory of trees and habitations a vision to warm the imagination. The region was known as Kahiki (Kukulu o Kahiki), a name that connotes Java and that is asso- ciated with the Asiatic cradle of the Polynesian race. Pele's mother was Haumea, a name that crops up as an ances- tor in the hoary antiquity of the Hawaiian people, and she was reputed to be the daughter of Kane-hoa-lani..... Read more PELE AND HIIAKA A Myth From Hawaii BY NATHANIEL B. EMERSON, A. M., M. D. HONOLULU, HAWAII Author of The Long Voyages of the Ancient Hawaiians, and of Unwritten Literature of Hawaii, Translator of David Male

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