Note 6 — PREFACE. (continued 2)

Pule palo, sincere prayers. A prayer is said to be a pule pulo that ends with “Amama, ua noa;” it is used to designate the truth of the statement or object of the prayer. Kepelino designates it as “A prayer in which the deity was called on to raise up the spirits of the dead inhabiting eternal night, or chaos,” which is commonly alluded to in Hawaiian traditions as the night of Kumuhonua; and such spirits were called the ancestral deities of darkness. ↑