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Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 11 — CONTENTS.

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The parents of Molokini were Puuhele the father and Puuokali the mother; they were lizards, those hills standing just beyond Kamaalaea.11 After they became husband and wife, Puuokali became pregnant with their first child, and gave birth to a daughter, a lizard like themselves, to whom was given the name Puuoinaina. This daughter of theirs was placed on Kahoolawe; the name of Kahoolawe at that time, however, was Kohemalamalama; it was a very sacred land at that time, no chiefs or common people went there.

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