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heiau kālua ua

kikinonoun / hei.au kā.lua ua / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

n., Heiau for stopping rain, or (less frequently) for bringing rain. One such heiau named Imukāluaua (rain-baking oven) was in the Kaunakakai quadrangle, Molokaʻi; a land section in Puna, Hawaiʻi, also has this name. Rain in leaf packages is said to have been baked in an oven.

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