[490] Hiiaka-i-ka-pua-enaena, Hiiaka of the burning flower. Her emblem was the little budlike pea-blossom flame. This name is sometimes given as Hiiaka-i-ka-pua-aneane, a more delicate but less striking epithet.
[491] Hiiaka-noho-lae, Hiiaka who dwells on the cape. She was recognized by a trickle of blood on the forehead.
[492] O ka la ko luna. O ka pahoehoe ko lalo. The sun overhead. The lava below.
[493] Aohe o kahi nana oluna o ka pali. Iho mai a lalo nei; ike i ke au nui me ke au iki, he alo a he alo; nana i ka makemake. The exact meaning of ke au iki and ke au nui is not clear.
[494] Keehi ... e nalo kapua'i. I am informed that Hawaiians, in order to conceal their goings, would erase their footprints by blurring them with their feet.
[495] Onohi ula i ka lani, a fragment of a rainbow.
[496] Lele kapu i kai. This may be put,--the old order has passed.
[497] Hoole akua, hoole mana. (To deny God, to deny supernatural power). It thus appears that the old Hawaiians were not unacquainted with those phases of skepticism that have flourished in all philosophic times.
[498] Ho'o-malau, to treat one's religious duties, or solemn things, with scorn.
[499] Ho'o-maloka, to be neglectful of one's religious duties, or of solemn things. In old times, how often did the writer hear the term ho'o-maloka applied as a stigma to those who persistently neglected and showed indifference to the services and ordinances of the church.
[500] Apapa-nu'u, the under-world and its spiritual powers.
[501] Apapa-lani, the heavens and their spiritual powers.
[502] Mano-ka-lani-po. This distinguished name was borne by that one of Kaua'i's kings who preceded its last independent monarch, Ka-umu-alii, by fourteen generations, which would bring his reign in the first half of the fifteenth century. He has the honor, unique among Hawaiian kings, of having his name affixed as a sobriquet to the island that was his kingdom. Whether the use of his name in this connection, apparently as a god, is to be regarded as antedating its occurrence in the Ulu genealogy (given by Fornander. See The Polynesian Race; vol. I, p. 195.), or whether, on the other hand, it is to be considered as an apotheosis of a name justly held in veneration, we cannot decide.