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Foi)ta)idii- Collniioii of HaiiUiiiaii Fo/k-loJi 



In the tradition of Opuukahonua it is told in that ston^ that they were the pro. 

 geuitors of Hawaii nei. There were tweut3-foiir generations before Wakea, and as 

 there were seventy-five generations from the time of Wakea would make ninety-nine 

 generations from Opuiikahonna to that of Kamehameha, therefore, till the reign of 

 Kamehameha I\' makes one hundred and one generations. 



CHAPTER III. 



About Wakka. 



In the tradition of Wakea it has been generally stated that thej- were the first 

 parents of these lands, and that it was by them that the people were propagated, and 

 that they were the ancestors of the chiefs of these islands. It is told in the history of 

 Wakea and his wife Papa that these islands were born from them. And some of the 

 historians believed that these islands were really made and put together by the hands 

 of Wakea. But one of the priests, called Pakui, who was a great historian of Kameha- 

 meha's time and a lineal descendant of historians from the very darkest ages, sa3-s 

 "these islands were really born." And this is how he composed his mele reciting the 

 events which gave birth to these islands: 



THK .SONG t)F PAKUI. 



Wakea Kahiko Luaniea,' 



Papa that gives birth to islands was the wife, 



Tahiti of the rising and Tahiti of the setting 

 sun was boru,- 



Was born the foundation stones, 

 5 Was born the heavenly stones, 



Was born Hawaii; 



The first-born island, 



Their first-born child 



Of Wakea together with Kane 

 lo And Papa of Walinuu the wife. 



Papa conceived an island. 



Was sick of child-.sickness with Maui. 



Then was born Mauiloa, an island; 



Was born with a heavenly front. 

 15 A heavenly beauty, heavenly beauty, 



Was caught in the kapa of waving leaves.^ 



Mololani was a great one to Ku, to Lono, 



To Kane, and also to Kanaloa. 



Was born during the sacred pains.'' 

 20 Papa was prostrated with Kanaloa, an island, 



Who was born as a birdling;'^ as a porpoise; 

 A child that Papa gave birth to. 

 Then Papa left and went back to Tahiti, 

 Went back to Tahiti at Kapakapakaua. 



25 Wakea then slept with Kaula wahine 

 And L,anai 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, 



30 Hina conceived Molokai, an island; 

 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. 



35 Papa came back from within Tahiti; 

 Was angry and jealous of her rivals: 

 Was wild and bad-tempered toward her hus- 

 band, Wakea, 

 And slept with Lua for a new husband. 

 Oahu-a-Lua was born, 



40 Oahu-a-Lua, an island child; 



' Wakea, son of Kahiko, the ancient, the abyss. 



-Tahiti-ku and Tahiti-nice, lit. standing and sleeping 

 Tahiti, or more properly Kahiki. refers to distant lands 

 eastward and westward of the place where the first of 

 mankind were created. Pol. Race, Vol. 1. 



^As fine kapas were displayed. 

 ■•A time at birth when all were excluded. 

 'This figure indicates high estimation for royal care; 

 the jjorpoise as one dodging difficulties, seldom caught. 



