Concerning the Construction of the Heiau. 



IN THE evening the adze was placed in the cloth, saying at the time to the god: 

 "Here is the adze together with the cloth. Tomorrow will be obtained the timber 

 for your house, ye god." In the [following] early morning, all the people and the 

 chiefs went u]) the mountain, no one remained; the men who had the adze which was 

 wrapped in the white kapa (oloa), tirst cut the main i^osts' and tied a strip of kapa 

 around each; the rest of the timber of the house, i. e., the other posts, the rafters, the 

 \ertical and the other battens and the plates were brought down by the other people, 

 and on that same day were the posts set and the house thatched. When completed the 

 same crowd of people again went up the n:ountain, where a man would be killed. This 

 man sacrificed on cutting down a tree to make idols was called haalclca; the people then 

 returned from the mountain with leaves of the forest. They were covered all oxev with 

 these shrubs. These things were heaped outside of the enclosure of the Jiciau where a 

 large idol stood: where that rubbish was deposited was called a kiialni. The liciati was 

 then sacred. Another man was then killed and placed on the Iclc ( these were four long 

 sticks which had been erected to form a square; the four sides were lashed with battens, 

 also the top, and to this was tied the oloa in such a way that the kapa hung down loosely), 

 together with a pig, coconut, banana and kapa. 



This was how the priest would pray on returning with the iiialiikoi: 



W'hitlicr the procession, O Kane, being carried alony ? 



Tlie procession, O Kane, marches upward. 



The heavens recognize the procession ; 



Kaneliekili above receives the procession ; 



Sacred is the procession marching past ; 



The procession passes away from earth 



By many separate paths of numerous gods, 



Slowly moving and singly is the going. 



O Kane ! Grant us Hfe. 



Ku ! O Kuamu ! — mu ! 



Ku. O Kuawa — wa ! 



With springing step, courageous. 



Then Laka came. 



And so keep on until the heiau is reached, then [the chant] stops. 



The things of the heaven which were worshii)ed: The sun, the moon, the stars, 

 the cloud, the thunder, the lightning, the heavy rain, the light rain (mist), t»/7/.' meteor, 

 rainbow. 



The things of the earth which were worshi]>ed: The earth, sand, tarn ])atch, pahi- 

 pcila. coconut grove, hill, reef, island, the tide, the land. 



'The posts wliicli support tlic ridge. 'Cloud foniiation, representing animals, humans, lish, 



etc. 

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