Note 1 — Introductory material (continued 3)

Hoamakeikekula was a very beautiful woman and was very pleasant to look upon. Her skin was like the covering of the young banana shoot;1 her eyes were like the weleweka2 blossom and her form was erect and faultless. Hooleipalaoa was the father, and Pili was the mother, and the land of [Hoamakeikekula’s] birth was Oioiapaiho in Kohala. Hooleipalaoa and Pili were of very high chief rank of Kohala in ancient time. Pili conceived and gave birth to a son Waikuaala by name. After he was grown up Pili again conceived and gave birth to the faultless one, Hoamakeikekula. Hoamakeikekula upon her birth was in the form of an ala (taro),3 and not having human form was thrown aside with a lot of sugar-cane trash by Pili the mother.