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Now, when the Sloven awoke in the morning and went out of doors, he found the stone hatchet (_pahoa_) of the King, with his spear, standing outside of the house.
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When the King had heard their conversation he thrust his spear into the ground outside the inclosure about Kalelealuaka's house, and by the spear placed his stone hatchet (_pahoa_), and immediately returned to his residence at
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_Kapo_ (Ká-po) -- a goddess and patron of the hula, sister of the poison-god, Kalai-pahoa, and said to be mother of Laka (pp. 25, 45).
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877
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Her forms of activity, corresponding to her different metamorphoses, were numerous, in one of which she was at times "employed by the _kahuna_ [30] as a messenger in their black arts, and she is claimed by many as an _aumakua, _" [31] said to be the sister of Kalai-pahoa, the poison god.
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877
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(shark's tooth weapon) and _pahoa_ (dagger), without provocation, so that he became a reproach to his people.
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