(e) Westervelt version. On the island-like peninsula of Mokapu on Oahu is the crater hill Mololani. On the east side near
the sea red earth lies beside black soil. Kane makes an image of
a man out of earth. . . . Ku and Lono catch a spirit of the air
and give Kane’s figure life. They name him Wela-ahi-lani-nui.
The man notices his shadow (aka) and wonders what it is. The
woman is torn out of the man’s body by the god Kane; Ku and
Lono heal the body. When the man sees her he names her Ke-aka-huli-lani after his own shadow.
Beckwith, Martha Warren, Hawaiian Mythology, new intro. Katharine Luomala, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1970, p. 46.
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