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Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 4 — CONTENTS.

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When the parents died, the children continued in caring for Holu. The people continued also to come up to worship. Here were the things brought: a black pig, a white chicken, root of the black awa, dark coconut, and red fish.4 It was taken and placed on a prepared stone platform. Then was lighted the imu for the pig, the imu for the chicken and the fish, and the awa chewed, the awa to be drunk by the god. A child who had never cohabited was selected; when everything was ready, the god’s [offering] was given first, and after that the people’s.

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