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Olden people differed in this respect, four accounts of its origin being given 1. That this hill originated from the placenta of Hamoa,77 some claim that it originated from the parents of Pele and her host; others, from Kaihuakala78 and Kahaule,79 his wife; still others, from Kalalawalu; and these are their accounts: Pele, Hiiaka and Puuhele were born of their parents; Kahinalii was their mother. However, Pele and Hiiaka were born with human bodies, while Puuhele was a bloody foetus when she was born. The elders despised this body, because when they beheld it it was not a human body, but only a foetus of blood; so the two conspired and said one to the other: “It were better for us to throw away our younger sister. How can we care for it? Of course we would care for it if it had a human body!” So they threw away the bloody foetus without the knowledge of the parents.