. Légendes de Ma-ui--un demi dieu de Polynésie . nourriture pour son peuple dans la même voie que sa sœur avait travaillé. Le four était creusé. Les pierres et le bois étaient collectedet le même tableau fantomatique de pommes de terre, taro, cochon et chien préparé comme avait été fait auparavant par sa sœur. Les kahunas ou les prêtres savaient que Hina Kuluua sortait de sa province pour essayer de faire comme ses sisterhad fait, mais il n'y avait pas d'utilité pour essayer de changer ses plans. La jalousie est auto-volonté et obsti-née et aucune quantité de raisonnement de sa dépendance n'aurait d'influence sur elle. Les incantations ordinaires ont été observées, et H

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. Legends of Ma-ui--a demi god of Polynesia . food for her people in the same wayin which her sister had worked. The oven was dug. Stones and wood were collectedand the same ghostly array of potatoes, taro, pig anddog prepared as had been done before by her sister. The kahunas or priests knew that Hina Kuluua wasgoing out of her province in trying to do as her sisterhad done, but there was no use in attempting tochange her plans. Jealousy is self-willed and obsti-nate and no amount of reasoning from her dependentscould have any influence over her. The ordinary incantations were observed, and HinaKuluua gave the same directions as those her sisterhad given. The imu was to be well heated. Themake-believe food was to be put in and a place leftfor her body. It was the goddess of rain makingready to lie down on a bed prepared for the goddessof fire. When all was ready, she lay down on theheated stones and the oven mats were thrown overher and the ghostly provisions. Then the covering ofdirt was thrown back upon the mats and heated 162. On Lava Beds. stones, filling the pit which had been dug. The god-dess of rain was left to prepare a feast for her peopleas the goddess of fire had done for her followers. Some of the legends have introduced the demi-godMaui into this story. The natives say that Maui cameto burn or cook the rain and that he made theoven very hot, but that the goddess of rain escapedand hung over the hill in the form of a cloud. Atleast this is what the people saw—not a cloud ofsmoke over the imu, but a rain cloud. They waitedand watched for such evidences of underground laboras attended the passage of Hina Ke Ahi through theearth from the hill to the sea, but the only strangeappearance was the dark rain cloud. They waitedthree days and looked for their chiefess to come inthe form of a woman. They waited another day andstill another and no signs or wonders were mianifest.Meanwhile Maui, changing himself into a white bird, flew up into the sky to catch the

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