Aleurites moluccanus: Difference between revisions

In Maui the ''kukui'' is a symbol of enlightenment, protection and peace.<ref name="CanoePlants"/> It was said that [[Kamapua'a|Kamapua{{okina}}a]], the hog-man fertility demi-god, could transform into a ''kukui'' tree.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=NAWebiC2gasC&pg=PA16#v=onepage&f=false |first=Nancy Alpert |last=Mower |chapter=Kamapua{{okina}}a: A Hawaiian Trickster |title=Trickster Lives: Culture and Myth in American Fiction |publisher=University of Georgia Press |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-8203-2277-3 |editor=Jeanne Campbell Reesman |page=16}}</ref> One of the legends told of Kamapua{{okina}}a, was: one day, a man beat his wife to death and buried her beneath Kamapua{{okina}}a while he was in tree form. Because he saw that the woman had been a good person, he raised her to new life, but damned her husband to death.{{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}