Note 213 — A Wakea Creation Chant.
Reading edition
O ka io lele, name of a bird like an owl in its hovering, or standing still in the air, it is a black bird; lele mapumapu, a hovering as a bird floating in the air, flapping with the wings, but making no progress. O na pua a ka lani, na pua, the ancestors of Kamehameha, the descendants of chiefs down to Kamehameha’s time. ↑