HIIAKA CONTINUES HER PRAYERS
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Emerson, Nathaniel Bright
While Hiiaka in her ministrations did not omit anything that might aid and expedite Lohiau’s physical recovery, her chief reliance was in the spiritual aid of the gods; for which purpose prayer followed prayer like the pictures in a moving show:
He Mele Kunikuni no Lohiau
Kulia, e Uli,1
Ka pule kanana ola i mua o ke kahuna:
Kaulia i ke Alohi-lani;2
Kulia i Kupukupu o-luna nei.
Owai Kupukupu?3
O Ilio uli,4 o Ilio mea,5
O Ku-ke-ao-iki;6
O Ku-ke-ao-loa;7
O Ku-ke-ao-poko;8
O Ku-ke-ao-apihapiha9 o ka lani;
O ke Kanáka10 o ka mauna;
O na hoa o ka ulu11 laau;
E ku ai, e hina12 ka omaka13 e pule.
Ua kana:14 kahe ka wai,15 e Ka-hoalii;16
Moku i ka piko,17 e.
O imi, imi, o nalowale, i loa’a e—
Loa’a kau hala, uku i ka oiwi.
No ke aloha i kono, haele maua;
I ike aku au i ka uwé ana iho, e.
Eli-eli kapu, eli-eli noa. Ua noa-a!
THE CLIFFS OF KALALAU
TRANSLATION
Attend, o Uli: a prayer this for life,
Poured forth in the house of the priest.
Let it touch the hearts of the shining band,
The princes who rule in the heavenly courts.
Who is this healer named Kupukupu?
His are the soot-black swine, the yellow dog;
The tiny cloud-bud and the cloud full-blown;
The cloud quick with rain, and the sky
That is mottled and checkered with clouds;
The tall Man, the Lord of the Mountain;
His fellows who rest in the tree-shade—
Bent-kneed, they pray in their forest-temple.
Suffice it: here’s flowing bowl, Hoalii.
Seek the God; stay not till you find him.
If at fault, an offering this for your flesh.
The twain of us came at the call of love,