Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 1 (of 3) : $b The Hawaiians' account of the formation of their islands and origin of their race, with the traditions of their migrations, etc., as gathered from original sources — John Shaqi
Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 1 (of 3) : $b The Hawaiians' account of the formation of their islands and origin of their race, with the traditions of their migrations, etc., as gathered from original sources
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Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 1 (of 3) : $b The Hawaiians' account of the formation of their islands and origin of their race, with the traditions of their migrations, etc., as gathered from original sources
Folklore -- Hawaii; Hawaii -- Social life and customs; Hawaiian language -- Texts; Legends -- Hawaii
Wakea Kahiko Luamea, [22]
Papa that gives birth to islands was the wife,
Tahiti of the rising and Tahiti of the setting sun was born, [23]
Was born the foundation stones,
Was born the heavenly stones, 5
Was born Hawaii;
The first-born island,
Their first-born child
Of Wakea together with Kane
And Papa of Walinuu the wife. 10
Papa conceived an island,
Was sick of child-sickness with Maui.
Then was born Mauiloa, an island;
Was born with a heavenly front.
A heavenly beauty, heavenly beauty, 15
Was caught in the kapa of waving leaves. [24]
Mololani was a great one to Ku, to Lono,
To Kane, and also to Kanaloa.
Was born during the sacred pains. [25]
Papa was prostrated with Kanaloa, an island, 20
Who was born as a birdling; [26] as a porpoise;
A child that Papa gave birth to,
Then Papa left and went back to Tahiti,
Went back to Tahiti at Kapakapakaua.
Wakea then slept with Kaula wahine 25
And Lanai Kaula was born,
The first-born child of that wife.
Then Wakea turned around and found Hina,
Hina was found as a wife for Wakea,
Hina conceived Molokai, an island; 30
Hina’s Molokai is an island child.
The plover Laukaula told the tale
That Wakea had slept with a woman.
Fierce and fiery was the anger of Papa.
Papa came back from within Tahiti; 35
Was angry and jealous of her rivals;
Was wild and bad-tempered toward her husband, Wakea,
And slept with Lua for a new husband.
Oahu-a-Lua was born,
Oahu-a-Lua, an island child; 40
A child of Lua’s leaf-opening days. [27]
Went back and lived with Wakea.
Papa was restless with child-sickness,
Papa conceived the island of Kauai
And gave birth to Kamawaelualanimoku. [28] 45
Niihau is the last droppings;
Lehua was a border,
And Kaula the closing one
For the low coral islands;
The low white-marked isles of Lono, 50
The Lord Lono of Kapumaeolani. [29]
The rain dispelling conch [30] of Holani,
The big-rain dispelling conch of Kahaimakana.
It was the second lordly child, Kaponianai,
From the I, the sacred I [31] of Kaponialamea. 55
The dark dye, blue dye, the black dye, [32]
The anointed; the anointed destined to war;
That is Papa-a. Papa-a.
Hoohokukalani,
The high chiefess, Hoohokukalani, [33] 60
The chiefess of the loud voice,
Reverberating, crackling, sharpened.
That is modified and pared down
As leaves which are worn to thinness.
Wakea was the resemblance, 65
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