The Dream Girl

retold here by Moani
Adapted from "The Dream Girl" from Hawai‘i Island Legends by Mary Kawena Pukui and Caroline Curtis

As Maka lay sleeping on the mats a young woman approached her. She said that she layed on the trash piles and to get her before she died. As Maka went outside, she could not find the trash pile because of the gray mist filling her backyard. But somehow she found the trash pile by following a path and she also saw a tiny but luminescent rainbow billowing over the trash pile. So, she kneeled down to the trash pile and saw that a baby was there. Maka picked up this child crying because of this poor abandoned baby. She brings this child to her husband and they decide to keep her and to name her Nohea.

Nohea, as she grew up had no friends because Maka and her husband felt that a young chiefess shouldn’t play with normal people. When Nohea grew up, she needed to marry but Maka and her husband didn’t know who. Nohea had a dream one night of a warrior saying that she will go on a strange journey, she wakes up but does nothing about it. She dreams that night again saying she needs to start now with the same warrior there. As she is going on her journey, she climbs a tree to the strange sound coming from the bushes. A young man approaches and tells Nohea that he won't hurt her and he also bows down to her, so she climbs out of the tree. The man leads Nohea to his village to meet his chief, the chief of Kohala. When the chief of Kohala tells Nohea that he is the one from her dream, Nohea gets confused because he was the same person, but dressed differently. The chief of Kohala then tells his servants to get his uniform.

When Nohea finds out that it is him, they get married and on their wedding day, storms and rainbows fill the sky. But Maka feels that the cause of it is that the Gods are rejoicing the marriage of Nohea.