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As god of rain: Lono-nui-akea: Lono-of-wideexpanse. Lono-nui-noho-i-ka-wai: (Great-Lono-dwelling-inwater. 1) Visible in cloud and storm phenomena: Thunder; rainclouds; "Blood-red rainfall" (uakoko) as flood after storm; rainbow (uakoko); Lightn ing (maka'Ilohilohi, "flashing eyes"). 2) Heard as sound of thunder (Lono), thus the verb ho'olono, "to hear." b. As god of the a g r i c u l t u r al year: Lono-i-ka-makahiki: Lono-in-the-year; Lono-int h e - f i r s t - f r u i t s - s e a s on 1) God of f i r s t f r u i t s , taxc o l l e c t i n g , s p o r t s , in the makahiki season. (a) Major forms: Ipu o Lono (gourd, hue, ipu); (sweet p o t a t o , 'uala) Ipu o Lono image in hale mua (unu o Lo 10) 2) God of the ahu-pua'a image. (a) The boar incarnation of Lono as Kamapua'a the hog demigod (kupua). Represented as a p i g 's head carved from kukui wood. (b) As the medicine god: Lono-puha:Lono-of-abscess (c) Plant forms of Kamapua'a, as medicinal kinolau of Lono: kuki; Aleurites moluccana ama'uma'u fern: Sadleria spp. hala: Pandanus odoratisslmus uhaloa: Waltheria americana kukae-pua'a grass: D i g i t a r l a pruriens (Pua'a) olomea: Perr o t t e t i a sandwicensis hapu'u fern: Cibotium spp.l u ' a u leaf: Colocasis esculenta hinu pua'a banana: Muscacear spp. (black) limu l i p u ' u p u ' u: Valonia u t r i c u l a r ia ki ( t i ) : Cordyllne t e r m i n a l is 3) Images of Lono-i-kamakahiki (other than Ipu o Lono gourd image) Lono-makua (makahiki standard): Lono-father Called the akua loa: (long god, carried around the i s l a n d ); akua poko: (short god, c a r r i e d inland). 238