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

Note 52 — Mele Inoa no Kihapiilani.

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The shark, mano, was said to be trained to certain preferred food and became aumakuas (ancestral guardians) to their devotees, and awa being a sacred offering to the gods was held to be necessary for its propitiation. ↑

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