Lake Wai'au

                                                       Goddess of Lake Wai-au

     “Waiau was another snow maiden of Mauna Kea, whose records in the legends has been almost entirely forgotten.  There is a beautiful lake glistening in one of the crater cones of the summit of the mountain.  This was sometimes called “The Bottomless Lake” and was supposed to go down deep into the heart of the mountain.  It is really forty feet at its greatest depth-deep enough for the bath of a goddess.  The name

Wai-au means water of sufficient depth to bathe.  Somewhere, buried in the memory of some old Hawaiian, is a legend worth exhuming, probably connecting Waiau, the maiden, with Wai-au the lake.” (W.D.Westervelt).

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