1st
Ma ke kai Melemele
Ke kowa a o Berina
O ka hale lau Pama
A o make i ke kula.
Hui: Aia i Alika
E ka ihu o ka moku
Ua hao a paihi
Na pe’a i ka makani
Ke liuliu nei
Na kaula likini
Alualu ole iho
Ka pe’a i ka makani.
2nd
A oi kau aku
Ka newa i ko piko
Kaa e ka huila
Niniu i ka makani.
[Here is a variant of a mele still popular to this day! I wonder if it was sung to the same tune as we hear it sung now…]
(Loea Kalaiaina, 1/31/1898, p. 1)
ALIKA!
Aia i Alika o ka ihu o ka moku,
Ua hao a paihi ka pe’a i na kia
Ke liolio nei na kaula polena
Alualu ole iho i ka pa a ka makani
Ke kau ae nei ka ihu i Makao
Ke iho ae nei e komo i Alika
Ma ke kai melemele ke kowa o Berina
Nani wale ka ikena, na pua i Kalona
I noho i ka iu, ka piko i Himele
Ka hale pama hoomaka i ke kuia.
Aia i Alika o ka ihu o ka moku,
Nana i alakai kuhikuhi pololei
Ke ala pololei e ike ai oe
Ka loa o ka moana, ka piko o ka honua
Paa mai [?] o wakea, kaohi i ka mole
O ka mole o lehua, oa [?] o Kanaloa
A he hoa o you no ka la lealea
Enemi mai loko, pii e ka inaina
Ukiuki ae au…
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ADOLPHO—In Honolulu, October 31, 1918, Continue reading
Huc M. Luquiens Appreciates Carved and Feathered Deities of Ferocious Mien and Lost Symbolism
By LORIN TARR GILL
“If we were forced to choose a single specimen to represent the characteristic art of Polynesia, it might well be one of the extraordinary wooden gods of Hawaii,” Huc Luquiens, assistant professor of art at the University of Hawaii, asserts in his paper on “Hawaiian Art,” soon to be published by the Bishop museum. Continue reading
Who is the enemy of the people?
Newspapers are published a lot these days. The millions of Newspapers of Britain, France and America which are printed each week have not been all counted. Newspapers are not like actual books. Books cover but a single subject, while newspapers cover all news, every new endeavor, and every new idea, with nothing left out. Good things and bad things are published in the newspapers; proper conjectures and improper ones; angry thoughts and loving thoughts; good deeds and evil deeds. From all parts of the world, letters are written telling of the activities of those places. If a ship runs aground and is smashed, that is put into the newspaper. If a person falls and dies, it is heard of in the newspapers. If someone is killed, that is also published. If two nations are warring, all the activity of the war is published. It is important…
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Hilo, Hawaii, July 6, 1931.
Editor, The Star-Bulletin.
Sir: In your issue of July 4, 1931, there appears a picture of an old Hawaiian wooden idol under which it was stated that it was believed to be the poison-god Kalaipahoa. Continue reading
From the sugar plantation of Kealia, Kauai, Continue reading
