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15 Noho a'e o Malau. 



JJa ka ia ka liu o ka wa'a. 



la wai ka hope, ka uli o ka wa'a, e ne boa 'lii? 



Ia Pele-honua-mea. 



A'ea'e kai lioe oluna o ka wa'a. 



20 O Ku ma, laua o Lone, 

 Nolio i ka honua aina, 

 Kail aku i lioolewa moku. 

 Hiiaka, noiaii, lie akiia, 

 Ku ae, hele a iiolio i ka hale o Pele. 



25 Huahiia'i Kahlki, lapa uila, e Pele. 

 E liua'i, e! 



tTranslation] 

 A Song — The first song of the hula Pele 



From Kahiki came the woman, Pele, 

 From the land of Pola-pola, 

 From the red cloud of Kane, 

 Cloud blazing in the heavens, 

 5 P^iery cloud-pile in Kahiki. 



Eager desire for Hawaii seized the woman, Pele; 

 She carved the canoe, Honua-i-a-kea, 

 Your canoe, O Ka-moho-alii. 

 They push the work on the craft to coiuiiletion. 

 10 The lashings of the god's canoe are done, 

 Tlie canoe of Kane, the world-maker. 



The tides swirl, Pele-honua-mea o'ermounts them ; 

 The god rides the waves, sails about the island ; 

 The host of little gods ride the billows; 

 15 Malau takes his seat; 



One bales out the bilge of the craft. 

 Who shall sit astern, be steersman, O, princes? 

 Pele of the yellow earth. 

 , The si)lash of the paddles dashes o'er the canoe. 



20 Ku and his fellow. Lono, 

 Disembark on solid land ; 

 They :i light on a shoal. 

 Hiiaka, the wise one, a god, 

 Stands ui», goes to stay at the house of Pele. 



25 Lo, an eruption in Kahiki! 



A flashing of lightning, O Pele ! 

 Belch forth, O Pele! 



Tradition has it that Pele was expelled from Kahiki by her brothers 

 because of insubordination, disobedience, and disrespect to their 

 mother, Homm-mea, sacred land. (If Pele in Kahiki conducted her- 

 self as she has done in Hawaii, rending and scorching the bosom of 

 mother earth — Honua-Mea — it is not to be Avondered that her 

 brothers were anxious to get rid of her.) She voyaged north. Her 



