Photo Credit: Dominic Piperata
Kualoa Mo’olelo
Towards the end of Kualoa Point there was a pond which a strange demi god in the form of a shark lived. This demi god was sheltered and fed as the people of Kualoa were his friends. Fish were plentiful in the pond and as long as they fed him he was gentle and kind towards humans and fiercely hostile towards other sharks. For many years the villagers fed him and the demi god kept the area safe from any unfriendly sharks.
One day a new chief came, a man with a stingy and petty soul. He flatly refused to feed the shark for he claimed that the fish were his by right. Enraged by the greed of the presumptuous chief the shark god summoned a massive tidal wave and flooded the land. The villagers were able to escape but the pond as well as the selfish chief were gone.
