Here I am in my first Papa Hei performing Koko a Makali'i, the net of Makali'i. Our kupuna (elders)tell us that Makali'i took all the food on earth and hung them in the sky. Only the rat people were able to save mankind from starvation by climbing upon the rainbow and nibbling on the net so that food would once again return to earth. The place that the rat people fell is called 'Iole (rat) on the island of Hawai'i. A portion of the net was embedded in a rock on the south side of the island.