Note 1 — III THE GOD OF PAKAKA TEMPLE
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The wonderful bread-fruit1 tree was a great tree growing on the eastern bank of the rippling brook Puehuehu.2 It was a tabu tree, set apart for the high chief from Kou and the chiefs from Honolulu to rest under while on their way to bathe in the celebrated diving-pool Wai-kaha-lulu. That tree became a god, and this is the story of its transformation: