The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-07-06
TALE OF A GODDESS.

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TALE OF A GODDESS.
THE tale goes that Punaluu was a
woman with two mouths, one of them
in the middle of her back She lived
near this pool, where the natives would
come to bathe in the old days, and used
to watch to see them coming. Then
she would slip down ahead of them. get
| into the pool first, change herself into
shark and, hiding in a cave below
the rocks, dash out and devour the
bathers. The kahunas suspected her,
and by watching caught her. Then
they changed her into that rock.
But 1t is said that If tidal wave
or an eruption or any great calamity
| impends she comes out and sits comb
| ing her hair on the rock. She always
| comes in daylight, even at her annual
appearances, the hour being noon L
have tried to raise the rock which Is
| the goddess from the pool, but 1t is
fast there"
The rock in question is a phallic
image. undoubtedly, and it may be that
the legend covered plan of the ka-
hunas to keep natives from dehllng the
pool. / have given 1t as Daniel gave
IL to me, at all events, and you can
take 1t or leave it. The rock is there
AT the bottom of the pool, and you can
go and see it. My only comment Is
that lady with two mouths should
have been changed TO stone. a man
has a heavy enough handicap in deal
ing with lady who has only one.
From Punaluu temple and pool is a
short but very hard ride across the
, lava to the heiau of Wahaula, one OF
: the largest in the islands. Its rude lava
, walls are falling fast, helped not lit
= tie by natives who have yarn that a
man buried $4,000 IN gold somewhere
? about here and died before he had an
3 opportunity to tell his wife where the
p money was hidden. Enough remains
v however, to give fair idea of tht
@ place. and to make restoration COM
G paratively easy-and that is worl
which should be undertaken withou
delay. In fact have reason to know
that an official report to this erect WI
e presently be made.
:, THE PUMA TRAIL.
is From Wahaula, straight away acros
l. the lava flows and past the wonderfu
a. six Craters that lie in a line below ki
ID lauea, the trail runs to the forests tina
IS skirt the Volcano road. With one sto
ii. here at the Pea goat ranch, whenc
le they hunt wild goats i'm the lava an
Is slaughter them for their hides, we rod
le onward. The bowl of coffee that Mr'
AZ Pea gave me saved my life, l thinl
g II was strong and generous, the cone
grown and roasted on the place Ihe
c. had eighty goats in stone corral her
a driven up for slaughter for their pelt
We and II was a remarkable thing To Sc
b. In some OF the widest OF these unmi'
es taxable traces OF Angora blood. Arist'
Gratis of the lava beds, surely The
at said that they drove In the goats
lis thousands, sometimes, and as we dram
in our coffee a party Of stalwart natiN
ed men and boys. on mules and on Zoo
~. were starting away Tor AN afterno'
ng drive,
OF 4 little way along the road We m
It's "A solitary native with a pack tTain,
VI man Of whom We had heard nrsI fro
M his son az Kalapaua. This man, kau
nd By name, was OF worry light compile
.ht ION. with strong, shrewd, kindly fac
at and with two gnared stumps whe
nd his hands should have been, siandil
he hrsldr tho IRAN where he had plrkru
his animals fnr the night halt lie 10
icy us how fnuy years before when pa "
de-. young man NJ lWrnBrthfrfi De- y
rh. hesn nshiug in "a eonor or kalnh'
ir, aui had br,n upsrt and had fought Z
lm "a monster shark Nlth me- bare han,
lhr once hp struck at lhu nHh Niih
90 HEhi hand ana inr shark mi on N
uE hand TNllr be- niruNk Win Die u
,ni hand, snd ihe shark pll IN ltai hai
sll rhrn hr kipkfh ihr nsh ani' All
ile le,rrninF lhe nr8h rfp'lll ih' mons
nf lflame fiifhtenri ani ran away
ln lhr pain NRs Hn Fr.i lnai