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Unwritten Literature of Hawaii

Note 33 — V—CEREMONIES OF GRADUATION; DÉBUT OF A HULA DANCER

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Footnote 33:(return) Mo’o-helaia. A female deity, a kupua, who at death became one of the divinities, au-makua, of the hula. Her name was conferred on the place claimed as her residence, on Mauna-loa, island of Molokai.

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