November 2025 - Page 10

Long before the great canoes of Polynesian voyagers touched the shores of Hawai‘i, before chiefs ruled and the sound of drums echoed in the valleys, there were the Menehune, the mysterious Little People who lived deep within the mountains. They were small in stature but mighty in skill, gifted craftsmen and

Long before Western ships touched the shores of Hawai‘i, when the gods still walked unseen among the mountains and valleys, there lived a cruel and arrogant chief. His name is lost to time, for his deeds brought him only shame. He ruled over a lush valley surrounded by ancient forests,

Long ago, when the islands of Hawai‘i were young and the seas shimmered with divine light, there lived a maiden unlike any other, her name was Anuenue, the Rainbow Maiden. She was born from the sacred union of sunlight and rain, the two eternal lovers who danced across the skies of

In the time when the world was young and the Hawaiian Islands still shaped their forms from the breath of the gods, there lived Pele, the radiant goddess of volcanoes, fire, and lightning. Her home was the crater of Kīlauea, where molten rivers of lava flowed like veins of the