The Menehune: Hawaii's Hidden Builders
The Menehune are a legendary race of small but powerful people who inhabited Hawaii before the Polynesian voyagers arrived. They were master builders who worked only at night, constructing fishponds, temples (heiau), and irrigation systems across the islands. The Menehune could complete in one night what would take ordinary humans months. The Alekoko Fishpond on Kauai is said to be their work, built in a single night by a line of Menehune stretching from the mountains to the sea. If a human watched them work, the Menehune would stop and vanish. Today, the word Menehune is used to describe any