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

Note 194 — A Wakea Creation Chant.

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Ua hanai i ka iao, they were fed with the iao, a species of small fish, i.e., Kamehameha fed them. Hoo-lulu—Hooalualu, to collect, to gather; they were gathered like the aku, a species of fish which swim in shoals and can be baited by feeding them and afterwards caught in great quantities. ↑

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