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100. The sound of the voice is of my soul-wife : 



it is she, 

 Wandering""''' on the wife-steahng precipice 

 Toward the end of your goal.''" 

 Swiftly''" runs the sea, divided for the 



sacred child ! 

 The spirit is idling in the calm : 

 105. Comfortable''* in the quietness of Koolau, 

 The koolauwahine''-' ascends to the top of 



Kamailepuu, 

 Ascends like a fire-brand,''" 

 [Like] the shadow of the spirit of another 



child 

 Of Kamalalawalu, whose is the soul of a 



man, 

 1 10. The woman with a double body"' is at 



Polihale. 

 When the hills are past the fatiguing ends ; 

 Let us go"^ to Nohili 

 To see the habitation of the gods. 

 Thatching there at Waiolono."' 

 115. Enveloped is the house by the mirage"^ 

 Establisheil by Limaloa,''"' 

 \\'ith foundations prepared by Uweuwe- 



lekehau.'''' 

 The soul rose up at Kalaniaula : 

 A shadow"' nestled up at the naulu, 

 120. The soul flies away"* in the wind. 

 The wind-break of Kekaha 

 Is the barrier of the wind. 

 Your name becomes a bird's body, 



O Kalani."' 



100. Ku'i ka leo o kuu wahine uhane, oia nei. 

 llele wale i ka pali kaili lawe wahine, 

 lioohiki i koena wai. 

 Kapnkapn aku la ke kai, okia no kama 



kapu. 

 Ka uhane walea i ka lai, 



105. ^Tanea i ka paa o Koolau, 



Oni ke koolauwahine, oia kailuna o 



Kamailepuu. 

 Oni e like me ka auhau, 

 Ke aka o ka uhane o kekahi kama, 



Kamalalawalu, nona ka uhane wai 



kanaka, 



1 10. Wahine kino lua, oia ka i Polihale. 

 Pau ka pali hala ka luuluu. 

 Ho'i kaua i Xohili. 

 Ike aku i kauhale a ke akua, 

 Ke ako la, la i Waiolono. 



115. Paa ka hale a ka li'ula, 



1 kukulu ia e Limaloa. 



I kueneia e Uweuwelekehau, 

 He uhane ku i Kalaniaula, 

 He aka kai pili me ka naulu, 



120. Ka uhane pee i ka makani. 

 Alai makani o Kekaha, 

 Pale alau he koo na ka makani, 

 Ko inoa e kino manu aku la e Kalani. 



''Hclc zvale, the soul wanders on the wife-stealing cliff. 



"■■'Hither shall thou come but no further," Iwohiki i kc kocna wai. like kiimnMi. law, forbidding to take his 

 wife there again. 



"Kat'ukapu, to run quickly as one unburdened ; the sea divided for the sacred spirit of Kaahunianu, the child. 



'^Nanca, easy, satisfied ; i ka faa, at the goodness, the perfection of Koolau. 



"'The wind ascends to Kamailepuu, a hill in Xapali, Kauai. Oni. like ani, to clinil) up; ascend as a wind when 

 it strips a hill or pali. 



""The fire-brands of Kauai were of auhau, the lightest of wood, and the Napali district was famous for the 

 practice there of pyrotechnic displays by the llirowing of these lighted branches of auhau from tlie hig-h rliffs of the 

 sea-coast. Tlie upward current of the wind and lightness of the wood usually made the descent so gradual as to 

 consume these sky-rockets before their fall into the sea. 



"'nonWo liody, kino Iiiu. i. c.. Iw" kinds, first a 1)ody then a soul, there it is .-il Polihale. a noted temple lieyond 

 Mana. 



°'-Hoi kaua for Inn' tikii knua, continuing the dual soul-body idea. 



"'Waiolono, name of a place not identified, but indicating connection witli the major god Lono. 



"Liula. the glimmering motion on a hot day; mirage. 



""Limaloa. the god of Mana, formerly a man, credited with establishing the mirage of that place. 



""This was an ancient ancestor whose soul-spirit (ghost) rose up at Kalaniaula, and was supposed to succor 

 the mirage. 



"'A shadow, shade, aka, comes with the naulu, a wind from Niihau. 



°'l'hauc t'cc, the soul hides, flies away in the wind. 



""Thou goddess art a bird's body, i. e., a soul flying. This is a frequently used metaplior. 

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