Legends of Old Honolulu (Mythology) / Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian

by W. D. Westervelt

Kou has the large konane board.

This is the day, and to-night

The eyes meet at Kou.”

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VIII

A SHARK PUNISHED AT WAIKIKI

Among the legendary characters of the early Hawaiians was Ka-ehu—the little yellow shark of Pearl Harbor. He had been given magic power and great wisdom by his ancestor Ka-moho-alii the shark-god, brother of the fire goddess Pele.