Song to Kauikeaouli. 



Mele no Kauikeaouli. 



Kupahipahua' is the cliief, the king, 

 The king of heavenly brightness. 

 That heavenly flame shines increasingly ; 

 A chief of the projecting stone-clifif. 

 5. Lonokaeho had several stone foreheads, - 

 Lono's' forehead was annointcd witli 



coconut juice/ 

 [lie was] recognized In' the black pig"' 



of Kane ; 

 The sacred black pig and awa'' <:if F^onu. 

 O Lono ! 

 10. Here is your chief eye. your leaf, your bud. 

 Your light, your child, your sacred chief, 

 O Kahaipiilani ! 



Yours on the back' others will care for. 

 Take care of the leaf, the flower (child.) 



of Keaka : 

 15. The restless child of Kaikilani's* 



weakness, 

 Whose restless child he was. 

 Kanaloa's" was the dark col(irc(l dog. 

 His eyes were blackened that 

 It penetrated the eye-ball ; 

 20. The forehead was marked with variegated 



stripes,'" 

 Indicating high kapu : 

 The kikakapu was substituted for 



kapuhili. 

 The time that chief ended. 



O ke Kupahipahoa ka lani, ke "lii. 



ke 'lii aoa lani, ao aa. 



He a ia mau lani kiimakomako, 

 He lani no ka huku maka palipohaku. 

 He mau lani pohaku na Lonokaeho, 

 No Lono ka lae i ponia i ka wai niu. 



1 liana i ka puaa hiwa a Kane, 



I ka puaa hiwa, puawa hiwa a Lono. 

 E Lono e ! 



10. Eia ko maka lani, ko lau, ko muo, 

 Ko ao, ko liko, ko 'Hi kapu. 

 E Kahaipiilani. 



Ko ma ke kua, na hai e malama, 

 Malama ia ka lau, ka pua o Keaka. 



15. Ka pua ololo, heniahema o Kaikilani, 

 Nona ia lau ololo. 

 No Kanaloa no ka ilio hulu pano 

 I ixjni ka maka i noho ka eleele 

 I loko o ka onohi. 



20. Ke kakau kiokii onio i ka lae 

 He kioki kapu, 



O ke kikakapu o ku ia kapuhili 

 An wahiawahi ia lani. 



'Kupahipahoa, implying efficiency, may be taken as a complimentary epithet to the subject of this eulogy. 



'This celebrity was credited with seven foreheads which he used as weapons, for attack or defense, till overcome 

 by Kaulu and slain, at Olomana, Koolau. See Memoirs Vol. IV, pp. 530-532. 



'Name shortened from Lonokaeho. 



'Annointed with the milk of coconut, by way of consecration. 



'Recognition by the black pig, as shown in Memoirs Vol. IV, on page 188, in the recognition of Umi, by the 

 chief-searching pig of the priest Kaoleiokn. 



Lines 6 to 11 inclusive, arc almost identical with lines of chant in honor of Piikea, Vol, IV of Memoirs, page 

 238, while those following, up to line 20, have their duplicate on page 240. 



'Sacrificial offerings, the unblemished black pig and sacred root of awa of Lono. 



'Ko (keiki, child implied) ma ke kua, yours at (or on) the back, refers to the method of carrying a foster or 

 adopted child in contra distinction of one's own child, which would be ma ke alo, in front, usually referred to as 

 hiialo. 



'Kaikilani, wife of Lono and paramour of Kanaloakuaana. 



'An epithet of Kanaloakuaana. When this celebrity was vanquished by Kamalalawalu at the battle of Kaunooa 

 his eyes were gouged out, the sockets pierced by darts, after which he was killed. See Memoirs Vol. IV, p. 342. 



"Tatued marks on the forehead, or temples, indicated grief for a beloved alii. Memoirs Vol. IV, p. 132. 



"Kikakapu and kapuhili are names of two kinds of fish held to be sacred, more especially the former, hence its 

 substitution. 



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