Kapaemahu

Kapaemahu is a bilingual picture book written in both ʻŌlelo Niʻihau and English, retelling an ancient Hawaiian legend about four mahu healers — Kapaemahu, Kapuni, Kinohi, and Kahaloa — who traveled from Tahiti to Waikiki centuries ago. Each possessed unique healing powers: touch, spirit-healing, diagnosis, and distant healing. Before disappearing, they imbued four large stones with their abilities as a gift to the islanders; generations later, after the story of the mahu had been largely erased from public memory, a young girl discovers that one stone still holds its power.