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Overview
Westervelt’s appendix locates Kane-kua-ana in the Ewa lagoon, which he identifies with Pearl Harbor. The moʻo is said to have brought pipi oysters to Ewa and is associated with the people who gathered them.
When oysters declined around 1850, the account reports an explanation that the guardian was angry and sending them to Kahiki or another distant land. This is an attributed historical explanation of resource loss. It neither establishes its biological cause nor supplies a detailed reptilian anatomy or a personal transformation episode.
Origins & earliest records
William Drake Westervelt, Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Boston: Geo. H. Ellis; London: Constable, 1915), Appendix: The Dragon Ghost-Gods. Unnamed local narrator; older authorities only directly read through this publication.
Records & interpretation
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Legends of Gods and Ghosts, Appendix: The Dragon Ghost-Gods, pp. 258
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- Primary collected narrativeLegends of Gods and Ghosts, Appendix: The Dragon Ghost-Gods, pp. 258Research access: 2026-10-05
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