The Rainmaker’s Daughter
Long ago, on the windward side of a Hawaiian island, there lived a great rainmaker named Kahinalii. His chants could call the clouds, rain, and his prayers could open the sky, but one summer the heavens refused to listen. The streams shrank to trickles, taro fields cracked, and the people’s throats were parched. Kahinalii tried every chant he knew, offering
