Note 26 — A Wakea Creation Chant.
Reading edition
He malama aina. Hoku has now the care of the land as head man or konohiki. Hoku was the name of the fifteenth day of the month and considered an unfortunate day, in which no one would begin business. It was to the Hawaiians what the dies nefastus was to the Romans. This will account for the following dreary appearance of the country upon which the poet now enters. ↑