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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> impressed by his handsome face and Apollo form, and learning that he was the great <br /> <br /> Akua from Tahiti, she could not refuse him. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> The marriage ceremony was performed before all the High Chiefs of the surrounding <br /> <br /> country, and a great concourse of their followers. After the ceremonies, which lasted for <br /> <br /> days, were over, they with all their followers went to reside at Hokd'ula. Often would <br /> <br /> Wao go to Laelae, the hill above Kohokahau Falls on the land of Waiaka, where she <br /> <br /> would give birth to her children. For that reason the hill was called Pali kapu o na 'Iii o <br /> <br /> Waimea or sacred hill of the Chiefs of Waimea. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> "The servants of Wao would roll a stone down the hill to a flat of land and wherever the <br /> <br /> stone would stop, that would be the tabu line, and no one would be allowed to pass. <br /> <br /> Especially would it be a sign for the people who lived below the hill called Pekepekelaui <br /> <br /> who were a class known as kaua or low born. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> "At night Wao, would change her servants into stone and would then return to the spring <br /> <br /> where she spent the night; a little before the dawn of day, she would return and turn them <br /> <br /> back into their human selves. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> "It is said that Wao can be seen when any of the Waimea Chiefs or Monarchs die, at the <br /> <br /> same spring, to this day." <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Please vote to protect this sacred place and vote for Res. 465-06. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> 2 <br />