Lanai

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Lanai

Lanai was under the control of adjacent Maui before written history. Its first occupants may have been in contact as late as the fifteenth century. The name Lanai is of dubious root, however the island has verifiably been called Lanaio Kauluaau, which could be rendered in English as "day of the victory of Kauluaau." This sobriquet alludes to the legend of a Mauian ruler who was expatriated to Lanai for some of his wild tricks at his father's court in Lahaina. The island was supposedly spooky by Akua-ino, phantoms and trolls. Kauluaau pursued them away and brought peace and request to the island and recaptured his father's support as an outcome.

As indicated by the Hawaiian legends, man-consuming spirits involved the island before that time. For eras, Maui boss put stock in these man-consuming spirits. Varying legends say that either the prophet Lanikaula drove the spirits from the island or the wild Maui sovereign Kauluaau achieved that chivalrous accomplishment. The more common misconception is that the underhanded Kauluaau pulled up every breadfruit tree he could discover on Maui. At last his father, Kakaalaneo needed to cast out him to Lanai, anticipating that him not will get by in that threatening spot. However Kauluaau outmaneuvered the spirits and drove them from the island. The boss looked over the channel from Maui and saw that his child's flame kept on smoldering daily on the shore, and he sent a kayak to Lanai to bring the ruler back, reclaimed by his boldness and intelligence. As a prize, Kakaalaneo gave Kauluaau control of the island and empowered resettlement from different islands. Kauluaau had, meanwhile, pulled up all the breadfruit trees on Lanai, representing the notable absence of t



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