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Hawaii Islands (Oahu) |
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Hat (Mokoli'i Island) |
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Hawaiian legends tell of Mokolii, a huge dragon slain by Hiiaka, the
sister of the powerful goddess Madame Pele. Hiiaka, a goddess in her own
right, set the creature's tail flukes into the waters off windward Oahu as
a landmark and left its body as a roadbed on shore. The island formed by
the creature's tail flukes bears its name, Mokolii. |
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known as Chinaman's Hat, Mokolii is now part of Kualoa Regional Park. The
157-acre park was bought from a private landowner in the early 1970s, and
after the purchase archaeologists found evidence that Mokolii and the
Kualoa area had historic importance.
Kualoa was a training ground for Oahu's high
chiefs and the residence of Kualii, the first king of Oahu. Mokolii was an
adze quarry and finishing area. Hawaiians quarried adze blanks from the
basalt on the eastern part of the island and shaped them using seawater
and sand they poured into 1- by 2-foot hollows in the rock. Traces of
several of these work areas remain to this day. |
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