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

Note 187 — A Wakea Creation Chant.

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Wa iho la, Kamehameha’s people converse over what they have gained, liked the butterflies around the flowers of the koali (convolvulus); ninia, a medicine; the capture of the island was the medicine that gave comfort to the eyeball (center) of the island, i.e., all the island. Kamehameha poured on the oil and the island was comforted. ↑

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