HIIAKA CONTINUES HER PRAYERS
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Emerson, Nathaniel Bright
That my tears might pour with the others.
Profound the tabu; profound be the peace!
It is peace!
Prayer followed on the heels of prayer:
Kulia, e Uli,18 ka pule kanaenae ola;
Kulia i ke Alohi-lani.
Uï ’a kupua o luna nei:
Owai kupua o luna nei?
O Ilio-uli19 oka lani;
O Ilio-mea,20 o Ilio-ehu;21
O Ku-ke-ao-iki;22
O Ku-ke-ao-loa;23
O Ku-ke-ao-poko;24
O Ku-ke-ao-awihiwihi-ula25 o ka lani;
O Kánaka26 o ka mauna,
Na Hoa27 hele o ka ulu-laau;
Na Keo-lani,28 i ku ai, e Laka;
O Maka’a-pule.29
Kahe ka wai o na Hoalii;
Nei wale ka pili moku;
Wawa, kupina’i, kuwawa o Ku-haili-moe;30
O Ha’iha’i-lau-ahea;31
O na Wahine32 i kapa ku, i kapa eleele—
Na ke aloha i kono e hele;
Hele mai la au, o Hiiaka,
I ke aloha a ka hanau:
Hanau ke ola;
A ola, a ola, e-e!
This mele-pule, though closely resembling, in many parts identical with, that on page 144 seems worth reproducing here.
TRANSLATION
Speed, O Uli, this prayer for health;
Give it wings to the heavenly courts.
The question is asked the shining band:
Who are the spirits of power up here?
The azure Cloud-god that floats on high;
God Ku of the Cumulus cloud-bank;
Ku of the Mackerel-patchéd sky;
Ku of the Cloud that roofs the horizon;
Ku, the Cloud-god sailing apart;
And Ku, the Cloud-god, ruddy and ragged;