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

Note 208 — A Wakea Creation Chant.

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He ikaika hili au, an action like the sword exercise; ikaika, strong; hiliau, brandishing as one does a sword, or a boxer his arms; o ka neiku, nei, the wail, cry of many voices; ka, a strengthening of the idea; neiku, like the sliding down of a high pali; nei used in poetry for nee, to move off. ↑

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