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Hina Keahi, the elder sister, had received the best of the gifts which their mother could bestow power over fire and ownership of the largest of the Halai hills. Known as the goddess of fire, Hina Keahi was indeed very powerful and one time gave spectacular evidence of it in saving her people from starvation, as told in the legend, Hina Keahi.
With reverence they covered the imu once more and carefully smoothed it over. That is why today you cannot see a deep crater in Puu Honu as in Halai, and why the dark, gloomy cloud a sure sign of rain often hangs low over the one-time home of Hina Kuluua.
Crops were allowed to wholly perish because none was strong enough to tend them. Hina Keahi saw that unless something was done at once her beloved followers would all die. Calling them about her she commanded that an immense imu be dug in the top of Halai Hill. "Prepare a place for each kind of food as though you were ready to fill the imu, then bring as much firewood as you can," she ordered.
And to this day one may see the immense imu in the top of Halai Hill, now overgrown with a thicket of feathery bamboo, which the people left open in memory of their timely deliverance. Hina Kuluua was the second daughter of the goddess Hina, who lived behind Rainbow Falls.
Long ago many, many years before the haole came to plant his sugar cane in their deep, rich soil these hills were the homes of several beautiful goddesses. The makai and largest hill, called Halai, was the home of Hina Keahi, eldest daughter of the goddess Hina, who lived at Waianuenue the cave behind Rainbow Falls in the Wailuku River and sister of Maui the demi-god.
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