Note 11 — PREFACE. (continued 3)

The location. Supposing that a house is standing on the side of a precipice, with the front of the house facing the cliff and its entrance is directly opposite said cliff, when the diviner priest comes and finds the house standing in such a position, he will say: “That is a bad situation, the name of it being a leleopu11 location. There are two important significations in its position: either the occupants will all die, or they will remove to some other locality, which will make the place desolate.” If a house is built upon a knoll or hill the predictions are the same as the house standing on the side or edge of a precipice. This location has two appellations, leleopu and holua.12 If the diviner priest finds that the locations are improper, but discovers a way of making them favorable, then houses may be built thereon. Should a house be built at the foot of a knoll, with bluffs on one side, then the character of the location is the same as that of the leleopu and holua. But if the front of the house is facing towards the knoll or hill with the entrance turned towards the bluffs, the diviner priest will say: “The house is perfect,” the reason for its perfection being on account of its front turning towards the hill or knoll.