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Overview
Westervelt’s appendix presents Mo-o-inanea as the ancestral leader who brings a family of moʻo from the Hidden Land of Kāne. His historical explanatory framework places her among migrating gods and their spirit servants. She first lives with the gods at Waolani, then moves to Puunui in lower Nuʻuanu when the expanding family needs separate homes across the islands.
She appears either as dragon or woman and inhabits Lua-palolo, a sticky-clay pit. The author associates the local clay with chiefly use and with restrictions during Queen Kaʻahumanu’s lifetime. She distributes her family from Hawaiʻi to Niʻihau. These are the appendix’s collected associations; its suggestion that she outranks particular gods remains the collector’s interpretation rather than a universal hierarchy.
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. 255–257
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- Primary collected narrativeLegends of Gods and Ghosts, Appendix: The Dragon Ghost-Gods, pp. 255–257Research access: 2026-10-05
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