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Neuware -Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Chapters: Mana, Kane, Kane Milohai, Lono, Haumea, Kumulipo, Menehune, Kamohoalii, Aumakua, Kalamainu'u, Kupua, Apukohai, Laka, Hi¿iaka, Lua-o-Milu, Kaulu, Namaka, Mahina, Kaha'i, Kamapua'a, Kumu-Honua, Kapuku, Lona, La'a Maomao, Haikili, ¿Elepaio, Nana-Ula, Paliuli, Paka'a, Ukupanipo, Lalo-Honua, Paupueo, Aikanaka, Kanaloa, Wakea, Kinilau, Kaupeepeenuikauila, Pele, Pa'ao, Ascalapha odorata, Polihale State Park, Nightmarchers, Maui, Papahanaumoku, Ku, Hawaiiloa, Kapo, Poli¿ahu, Pele's Curse, Kaho¿ali¿i, Läieikawai, Pilikaaiea, Nawao, Wahieloa. Excerpt: Kaupeepee-nui-kauila Prince of Molokai, the son of Kamauaua, king of Molokai, appears in Hawaiian legends. Probably the best-known was his elopement with Hina, queen of Hilo, this being one of the immediate causes of the a series of wars with the son's of Hina. He was the Hawaiian Paris and Hina was the Hawaiian Helen and their story is dramatic record of the love and hate, wrong and revenge, courage and custom, passion and superstition, of mythical times. Their story dates to the 12th century AD, 2400 years after the fall of Troy. He was the eldest son of Kamauaua. He was a warlike youth, well skilled in arms and mighty in strength and courage. He had been raised from infancy to hate the southern chiefs of the second migratory group from the Society Islands. So profound was his detestation of the alien chiefs that he resolved to devote his life to such warfare as he might be able to make upon them and their subjects. With this view he relinquished his right his right of succession to his younger brother Keoloewa, and gathered around him a band of warriors partaking of his desperation and courage, established a stronghold on the promontory of Haupu, on the north side of the island, between Pelekunu and Waikolo. At that point, and for some miles on each side of it, the mountains hug the ocean so closely as to leave nothing between them and the surf-beaten shores but a succession of steep, narrow and rugged promontories jutting out into the sea, and separated from each other by gorge-like and gloomy little valleys gashing the hill. Haupu was one of the most rugged of these was Haupu. It was a natural fortress fronting the sea at a height of 500 feet (150 m) or more, and flanked on the right and left by almost perpendicular declivities rising from narrow gulches choked with vegetation and sweetening the sea with rivulets of fresh water dashing down from the mountains seamed by their sources. It was connected with the mountain ranges behind it by narrow and rising ridgeBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 30 pp. Englisch.
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