. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . red apple-tree. Legends exist telling how manpartook of the forbidden fruit etc. Among the angels who had been created wasone who proved the Lucifer of Hawaiian mythol-ogy, and he caused a riot in heaven, by demandingthat the newly ordered man should worship Kane would not allow, as angels as well asman had been the creation of the gods. There-upon, this Kanaloa went to work to make a manafter his own heart; that is, one who would wor-ship him. Kane seemed to have no objection,but though Kanaloa did succeed in
. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . red apple-tree. Legends exist telling how manpartook of the forbidden fruit etc. Among the angels who had been created wasone who proved the Lucifer of Hawaiian mythol-ogy, and he caused a riot in heaven, by demandingthat the newly ordered man should worship Kane would not allow, as angels as well asman had been the creation of the gods. There-upon, this Kanaloa went to work to make a manafter his own heart; that is, one who would wor-ship him. Kane seemed to have no objection,but though Kanaloa did succeed in making avery creditable looking man, he could not endowit with life. In vain he breathed into its nostrils,and maddened by his failure, he resolved to destroythe man made by the gods. He stole into Paliuli,paradise, as a moo or lizard, and beguiled theoriginal pair into committing an offence whichcaused Kane to expel them from the garden. This outlawed pair had three sons, the secondof whom killed the first. The Hawaiian Cain wasnamed Laka. Ka Pili was the youngest son,. ANCIENT HAWAIIAN BELIGION. 63 whose genealogy is traced through thirteen gener-ations to Nuu^ the Hawaiian Noah. A delugefollowing^ Nuu built an ark, and entered it withhis wife, three sons, and a male and a female ofevery hving creature. After the deluge the arkrested on the mountain, overlooking a beautifulvalley. In his gratefulness Nuu offered a sacrificeto the moon, mistaking it for Kane. That godreproved him for his mistake, but left the rain-bow as a token of his forgiveness. The genealogycontinues for ten generations before coming to KuPule, the Hawaiian Abraham, who takes for hiswife his slave woman, Ahu. Ku Pule establishedcircumcision, and his grandson had twelve children,of whom were descended twelve tribes of men, fromone of which, Menehune, came the Hawaiians. Hawaii Loa, fourth in descent from this fatherof the Hawaiian Israel, set sail on the tracklesssea, and, guided, by the Pleiades, eventual
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