Footnote 25:[ (return) ] The teacher, a leader and priest of the hula. The modern school-master is called kumu-kula.
Footnote 26:[ (return) ] Kanaloa. Kane, Ku, Kanaloa, and Lono were the major gods of the Hawaiian pantheon.
Footnote 27:[ (return) ] Ku-pulupulu. A god of the canoe-makers.
Footnote 28:[ (return) ] Kini Akua. A general expression—often used together with the ones that follow—meaning the countless swarms of brownies, elfs, kobolds, sprites, and other godlings (mischievous imps) that peopled the wilderness. Kini means literally 40,000, lehu 400,000, and mano 4,000. See the Pule Kuahu—altar-prayer—on page 21. The Hawaiians, curiously enough, did not put the words mano, kini, and lehu in the order of their numerical value.
Kapo was sister of Pele and the daughter of Haumea. [29] Among other roles played by her, like Laka she was at times a sylvan deity, and it was in the garb of woodland representations that she was worshiped by hula folk. Her forms of activity, corresponding to her different metamorphoses, were numerous, in one of which she was at times “employed by the kahuna [30] as a messenger in their black arts, and she is claimed by many as an aumakua,” [31] said to be the sister of Kalai-pahoa, the poison god.
Footnote 29:[ (return) ] Haumea. The ancient goddess, or ancestor, the sixth in line of descent from Wakea.
Footnote 30:[ (return) ] Kahuna. A sorcerer; with a qualifying adjective it meant a skilled craftsman; Kahuna-kalai-wa’a was a canoe-builder; kahuna lapaau was a medicine-man, a doctor, etc.
Footnote 31:[ (return) ] The Lesser Gods of Hawaii, a paper by Joseph S. Emerson, read before the Hawaiian Historical Society, April 7, 1892.