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Description Laieikawai is a Hawaiian romance that recounts the wooing of a native chiefess of high rank and her final deification among the gods.

The story was handed down orally from ancient times in the form of a kaao, a narrative rehearsed in prose interspersed with song, in which form old tales are still recited by Hawaiian storytellers.

It was put into writing by a native Hawaiian, S.

Haleole, who hoped thus to awaken in his countrymen an interest in genuine native storytelling based upon the folklore of their race and preserving its ancient customs--already fast disappearing since Cook's rediscovery of the group in 1778 opened the way to foreign influence--and by this means to inspire in them old ideals of racial glory.

(From the Introduction (1919) by the Translator, Martha Warren Beckwith.

) The text is an edited version (2006) of Beckwith's translation.