Note 68 — PREFACE. (continued 5)

Waimakaua was the name of a service maintained in a temple whose timbers were of the lama68 tree. This service was for the flourishing of the crops. If the land had suffered under a great famine on account of the heat, perhaps, and that it was a very scorching season so that the things planted did not grow, then it was necessary that the Waimakaua service be held.69 If the same was auspicious throughout the works of the order of priesthood, rains would soon follow. That is why that service was called Waimakaua, a crop flourishing service.