PELE AND HIIAKA A Myth From Hawaii By NATHANIEL B. EMERSON, A. M., M. D. HONOLULU, HAWAII Author of The Long Voyages of the Ancient Hawaiians, and of Unwritten Literature of Hawaii, Translator of David Malo's Hawaiian Antiquities PRINTED BY Honolulu Star-Bulletin Limited 1915 TO HER MAJESTY LILIUOKALANI AND HER BELOVED HAWAIIAN PEOPLE PREFACE The story of Pele and her sister Hiiaka stands at the fountain-head of Hawaiian myth and is the matrix from which the unwritten literature of Hawaii drew its life-blood. The material for the elaboration of this story has, in part, been found in serial contributions to the Hawaiian newspapers during the last few decades; in part, gathered by interviews w…
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