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The Priest: O Lx)iio-mii-noho-i-ka-wai, E, oia 'nci ? 



The Congregation: Hooia, e, oia. 



The Priest: Ho-eii, kukupii, inana, ku iluiia o ka moku, E, oia, 

 'nei ? 



The Congregation : Hooia, e, oia. Hooia, e, oia. Hooia, e, oia. 

 Ke Akiia oia. 



.-ill together: Kane-Po-Lani, o Laiii jMakua, me Ku-ka-Pao i ki- 

 kilani, me Lono-nui-maka-oaka, he Akua. Ke Akua i 

 huila malamalama paa ka Lani. ku i ka 1 loiiua. I ka 

 Hoiiiia a Kaiie-Kumu Honua, he Akua. Hooia, e oia. 

 Hooia, e oia. Oia ke Akua, oia. 



'J'he head of the first kanaka was created from a whitish clay {palolo), which 

 was brought by Lono from "the four ends of tlie world — from "Kai Koolau, Kai 

 Kona, Kahiki-ku, Kahiki-moe" — north, south, east. west. The clay from the north and 

 east forming the right side, and the clay from the south and west forming the left. 



It was contrary to the worship of Kane to bury a corpse without previous puri- 

 fication and prayer (Kaiolcna a iiic pule), because the kanaka was derived from the 

 water (iiuulii ia no loko iitai o ka zi'ai) — muddy water — and the gods sang over him at 

 the creation. 



At the creation of man. Kane was the model after which he was made; Ku was 

 the workman who made him. and Lono assisted generally. When the clay-image of 

 Kane was made, they three breathed into its nose, and that breath was called "he iiiaiile 

 Lono." The gods then called on him to rise and become a living being, with this 



fiirnuila : 



Kane : "I haiia au i keia lepo la : Hiki au e oia !" 

 Ku and Lono: (respond) "Ola!" 

 Kane: "I liana au inei lepo la; Hiki an e oia!" 

 Ku and Lono: ( resixMid I "Ola!" 



The image then rose and knealt before the gods and they called his name Honua- 

 -ula (Red Earth) — his body was made of red earth {le/'o ula) and spittle {wai-nao), 

 and his head was made of the clay {palolo) brought from the four ends of the earth. 

 Another name for him was Ke Lii-Ku-Honua. 



After creation this man Honuaula, was given a ])lace to live in. called in 

 olden time Kalana i Hauola. in later times it was called Pali-uli. So runs the legend 

 of Kumu-Honua. and he dwelt alone at first without a wife. 



The gods seeing the man without a wife, descended on earth, put him into a 

 sleep, took out one of his ribs (lalo pnJiaka) and made it into a woman. They then 

 awakened the man who found the woman on his right side, and she was called Ke Ola 

 Ku Honua. 



There are man^' legends about this first man. Kumu Honua. According to some, 

 Kanaloa. who seems to have been an evil spirit {akua ino). "Ke kuf^u inn" interfered 

 with Kane when creating the first man. and Kanaloa started to make a man of his 

 own. When the earth was ready and shaped, Kanaloa called it to become alive, but 



