Ke-lii-kuku

Role: chief · First appears: Chapter V · Pele and the Chiefs of Puna

Life events

• Pele's lava covered Ke-lii-kuku's fertile plain and forests, leaving them burning beneath smoke.(Chapter V · Pele and the Chiefs of Puna · 📍 Puna)
  • With: Pele
  • “There in the distance it lay under heavy clouds of smoke covering all the land. When the winds lifted the clouds, rolling them away, he saw that all his fertile plain was black with lava, still burning and pouring out constantly volumes of dense smoke. The remnants of forests were also covered with clouds of smoke through which darted the flashing flames which climbed to the tops of the tallest trees.”
• Ke-lii-kuku hanged himself.(Chapter V · Pele and the Chiefs of Puna)
  • “Ke-lii-kuku caught a long vine, hurled it over a tree, and hung himself.”

Chapter V · Pele and the Chiefs of Puna

• enemies with Pele “Pele had heard the boasting chief and had shown that no land around her pit of fire was secure against her will.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes. Made with Rho MD.