[2] Alohi-lani (literally, the shining heavenly ones); the notions that prevail as to its precise meaning in this place are vague. [↑]
[3] Kupukupu, a benevolent deity who healed diseases and who caused vegetation to flourish. [↑]
[4] Uli. In this connection the word means black. Ilio is a cloud. [↑]
[5] Mea, yellow. Ilio mea, a yellow cloud. [↑]
[6] Ku-ke-ao-iki, a form of the god Ku, a small cloud—hand-size—that grew and grew until it became ominous and seemed to fill the heavens. [↑]
[7] Ku-ke-ao-loa, a cloud-omen grown to full size. [↑]
[8] Ku-ke-ao-poko, said to be a cloud that quickly dissolved itself in rain. [↑]
[9] Ku-ke-ao-apihapiha, a sky full of small clouds, probably the same as our “mackerel sky.” All these different kinds of clouds are forms in which Ku showed himself. [↑]
[10] Kanaka o ka mauna. This undoubtedly means Ku-pulupulu, a god of the canoe-makers. He seems to have had much influence over the lawless Kini Akua. He it was who contracted for the building of a canoe for the hero Laka. [↑]