Note 19 — PREFACE. (continued 3)

The services of cloud interpreters and weather prophets, as will be seen in this division, were in frequent demand and required the priest to be a close weather observer to distinguish, among the forty-five or more cloud-signs of their category, the omen to fit the inquiry. That some became expert in their interpretations speaks for their observing faculties. Kaopulupulu, the prophet-priest of Waimea, Oahu, was one of the most famous, whose predictions from cloud omens of the overthrow of Kahahana by Kahekili, though it cost him his life, nevertheless, came true. ↑