Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology)

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W. D. Westervelt. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology)

Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology)

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INTRODUCTION

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APPENDIX

PARTIAL LIST OF HAWAIIAN TERMS USED

PRESS NOTICES

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W. D. Westervelt

Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian

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MALUAE AND THE UNDER-WORLD

This is a story from Manoa Valley, back of Honolulu. In the upper end of the valley, at the foot of the highest mountains on the island Oahu, lived Maluae. He was a farmer, and had chosen this land because rain fell abundantly on the mountains, and the streams brought down fine soil from the decaying forests and disintegrating rocks, fertilizing his plants.

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