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Overview
Makani-kau travels as wind, shadow and a handsome human in Westervelt’s “Lau-ka-ieie.” He continues a bridal search after Pupu-kani-oi stops on Oʻahu. Two dragon figures cannot catch him. Near Kauaʻi he intervenes when a shark pursues a canoe: he rides the shark, grasps its fins and drives it among coastal rocks, where it becomes the named shark stone Koa-mano.
Bird guardians feel his wind without seeing his body. He finds Kawelona at Lehua and arranges cloud, shell and spirit boats for the return. Kamohoaliʻi supplies a feast and shark escort; Makani-kau later carries the boats to Waipiʻo in wind form. He organizes shell music for his sister’s wedding and eventually carries her vine body into the forest. His distinct bodies and protective travel are narrated together, rather than inferred from a generic wind-spirit label.
Origins & earliest records
William Drake Westervelt, collected and translated account in Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Boston: Geo. H. Ellis; London: Constable, 1915). Individual narrator and earlier manuscript not identified in this chapter.
Records & interpretation
Complete selected chapter read. Colonial explanatory judgments are not adopted as descriptions of contemporary Hawaiian belief.
Selected bibliography
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Legends of Gods and Ghosts, Chapter VI, pp. 40–48
Selected complete chapter; source spelling retained alongside Hawaiian place names.
Family & connections
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References
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- Primary collected narrativeLegends of Gods and Ghosts, Chapter VI, pp. 40–48Research access: 2026-10-05
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