She was woken up by the bright light in the sky. She knew what it was before she even saw it, Kokoiki, the flying star. The priests have been talking about it all month, they were saying something big was going to happen that night. The only big thing she could see though was her belly. According to her elders this was a great honor to have the son of the chief’s nephew. This was easy for them to say they weren’t carrying around another life in their stomach, not to mention a very important life, how important though she would never imagine. As she got a drink from the well she got a strange sensation of water trickling down her leg, it wasn’t until the agonizing pain in her stomach that she realized she was going into labor. The pain was so much that she feel to the ground and was unable to move. “Great,” she thought, “I will surely die giving birth to this retched child!” She screamed loudly for help but received no answer. It wasn’t for another twenty minutes of horrible pain that her husband ran up to her. He immediately questioned her for being out so late by herself, totally ignoring her cries of pain. The pain was so great and he her husband was not helping the matter antagonizing her like he was, so she finally screamed at him to shut up. It took the shock of his wife talking back to him for him to realize she was in labor. He picked her up and carried her to the medicine man’s hut as quick as he could go.
The hut was smoldering hot and smelt of a brewing stew with a lot of spices. The medicine man took the women and lay her down on a hard wooden table in the middle of the room. The pain, smell, and heat were starting to get to the woman, she thought to herself, “I will surely faint soon.” As if he read her mind the medicine man told her to take a sip of a concoction he just made, he told her it would soothe the pain and cool her down. She sucked the drink down in one sip, instantly she felt better. As if growing from with in a cool sensation was rapidly spreading throughout her body making the pain seem to fade away. At that moment she fainted, her husband was yelling at the medicine man, “YOU POSIONED HER, YOU KILLED HER WHY!” The medicine man simply replied, “Wait.” Fifteen minutes later a baby boy was born and five minutes after that the woman awoke from her sleep. Although she could not remember the actual delivery she knew her baby was with her and she held out her arms for him. She looked down at sleeping baby boy and said, “My sweet baby, my little Kamehameha.” When her husband looked at her with a puzzled look on his face she told him that was his name. When he asked and where did you come up with that she said it came to her in her dream.
Twenty years later the big thing the priests prophesied about on the night of the falling star happen to be the birth of Kamehameha, or other wise known as Kamehameha the Great. He was the first ruler of the Hawaiian Kingdom. He unified the islands of Oahu, Maui, Kauai, and Hawaii (the big island). He made the world look at Hawaii and established trade with many foreign countries. He brought peace to a land that was before over run with the violence of different tribes.
