For this reason his descendants, independently of the fact that they are regarded as _Mookahuna_, that is, of the priesthood, are more like nobles in the eye of the people, and are respected by the chiefs themselves.

There are, in the neighborhood of Mokini, stones which are considered petrifactions of the canoe, paddles, and fish-hooks of Paao.
At Pololu, toward the mountain, are found fields of a very beautiful verdure.

They are called the pastures, or grass-plots, of Paao (_Na mauu a Paao_).

The old priest cultivated these fields himself, where no one since his time has dared to use spade or mattock.

If an islander was impious enough to cultivate the meadow of Paao, the people believe that a terrible punishment would be the inevitable consequence of that profanation.
Disastrous rains, furious torrents, would surely ravage the neighboring country.
Some Hawaiians pretend that there exists another sacerdotal race besides that of Paao, more ancient even than that, and whose priests belonged at the same time to a race of chiefs.