CONTENTS.

[PART I].

PAGE
[Preface] 1
[Concerning Ancient Religious Ceremonies] 2
[Various Heathen Prayers] 46
[Concerning the Construction of the Heiau] 52
[History of the Hawaiian Priesthood Called the Order of Sorcery]56
[Preface]—[Order of Priesthood]—[The Diviner and Weather Prophet]—[Meaning of Divination]—[Divining a Location for the House]—[Other Unfavorable Locations]—[Divination on the Erection of Houses]—[Faultily Constructed Houses]—[Divination on a Post denoting Disease]—[Divining the Positions of Houses].
[History of the Hawaiian Priesthood in Olden Time Called Hoomanamana]66
[Explanatory Remarks]—[History of the Sorcery Priesthood]—[Divisions and Ordinances]—[Sacrifice Services of the Student]—[Divination]—[Praying to Death]—[Divination Relating to Houses]—[Divining Omens by the Clouds]—[Foretelling the Weather]—[The Healing Priests]—[Canoe Dreams]—[Adverse Signs]—[the Rainbow and the Rain]—[The Excrements]—[Bananas]—[The Mud-Hen]—[Auguries in Relation to Kings]—[The Massage Priest]—[the Hoounauna Priest]—[The Hookomokomo Priest]—[the Makani Priest]—[The Love-Inducing Priest]—[The Oneoneihonua]—[Signs Pertaining to Fishermen]—[Occupation of Farmers]—[Dreams]—[Auguries Relating to the Priesthood]—[Moles]—[Favorable Birth Months]—[Auguries of the Canoe-Hewing Priests]—[Spear Hurling]—[Bone Breaking Trading as Related to Agriculture]—[Ceremonial Functions of the Priesthood]—[Method of Building the Temple]—[Some Famous Priests].
[An Account of Cultivation]160
[Dry Planting]—[Wet Planting]—[The Potato]—[The Banana]—[Sugar-Cane]—[The Water Melon]—[The Calabash and Water-Gourd]—[Corn]—[The Pie Melon]—[Names of Different Plants]—[Men Noted in Agriculture].
[An Account of Fishing]172
[Shore Fishing]—[Fishing from Canoe]—[Night Fishing].
[Relating to Amusements].
Chapter
I. [Kilu]—[Ume]—[Puhenehene]—[The Sled]—[The Runner]—[Pahee]—[Olohu]—[Swinging]192
II. [Boxing]—[The Long God]—[Bathing by Jumping]—[Kite Flying]—[Surf-Riding]—[Dancing]—[Konane]—[Cat’s Cradle]—[The Puzzle]—[Game of Koi]—[Arrow-Slinging]—[Cock-Fighting]202

[PART II].

[Source and Migration of the Polynesian Race] 222
[Traditional Hawaiian History] 239
[Hawaiian Origins: Comparative Traditions.]
[Viti]—[Fiji]—[New Zealand]—[Tonga Islands]—[Marquesas]258
[Legend of Hawaii-Loa] 266
[The Story of Kahahana] 282
[A Lamentation for Kahahana]292
[Notes on a Lamentation for Kahahana]299
[On Hawaiian Rank] 307
[Chronological List] 312
[Events in Hawaiian History] 317
[Traditional and Genealogical Notes]318
[Birthplace and Interment Localities of Celebrities]319
[Hawaiian Genealogy] 324
[Notes on the Polynesian Calendar]330
[Hawaiian and Samoan Calendar]—[Days of Months]—[Names of Months]—[Hours of the Day]—[The words: Day, Month, Year]—[Names of Stars in Hawaiian]—[Points of the Compass].
[Creation Myths] 335
[Traditionary Voyages] 338
[On the word Amama] 340
[Philological and Miscellaneous Notes]341
[Story of Hiiakaikapoliopele]—[Extracts from Story of Keanini]—[Some Kauai terms with equivalents].
[Things similar in India, etc., and Polynesia] 347
[The Numerical System, comparative] 355

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[PART III].

[A Wakea Creation Chant, by Kaleikuahulu] 360
[Born Was the Island] 363
[Old Creation Chant (incomplete)] 363
[Primary Gods and Creations] 364
[The Fall of Kumuhonua and His Wife] 366
[The Flood] 366
[Fallen is the Chief] 368
[Name Song for Kihapiilani, by Kamakahelei] 411
[An Elegy to His Soul, by Niau] 416
[Evening Song] 418
[A Lamentation for Kalaiulumoku] 422
[A Lamentation for Lono-opio, by Pelekaia] 424
[A Lamentation for Keawekalohe] 426
[A Lamentation for Pe’ape’a] 427
[In Praise of Liholiho] 430
[A Lament for Liholiho] 435
[A Farewell to Harriet Nahienaena, by Kini] 438
[Nahienaena] 444
[A Lamentation for Young Kaahumanu, by Niau] 451
[Kualii] 457
[Keawenuiaumi] 460
[Kamehameha] 470
[Kaumualii] 474
[Kaumualii, by Kapaekukui] 481
[A Name for W. P. Leleiohoku] 484
[Song to Kauikeaouli] 485
[Keelikolani, by Pipi] 486
[Keelikolani, by Naheana] 487
[Legend of Kana and Moi] 489
[Prayer of Malaehaakoa] 492
[Prayer to Pua] 499
[Prayer to Hina] 501
[Prayer to Kapo] 503
[A Prayer to Lono] 505
[A Prayer] 507
[An Ancient Prayer] 508
[Prayer to Lono (prose translation)] 510
[A Prayer] 510
[A Song of Jesus] 511
[The Holy Bible, by Kanui] 512
[The Ignorant, by Paalua] 514
[The Ignorant, by Kauwahi] 515
[The Name of Kamapuaa] 516
[Kamapuaa’s Prayer (a fragment)] 520
[Puna Spread with Fertility] 520
[Beautiful is Waialeale] 521
[Koolau Wind of Wailua] 522
[A Loving Dirge for L. L. Ua] 524
[Lamentation for Lahainaluna] 527
[A Loving Song for the Seminary] 529
[A Song for Lahainaluna] 530
[A Song, by Kamakea] 531
[A Song of Lahainaluna, by Kiaikai] 532
[Lahainaluna Seminary, by Paalua] 533
[A Lamentation, by Kaauepaa] 533
[Lunalilo] 534
[Beautiful Land of Hawaii, by Nuuanu] 535
[In Heaven is Poloula, by Kalai of Kona] 535
[Hakaleleponi] 536
[Kaiahua] 537
[Keohokalole, by Makue] 538
[Moeholua] 539
[Kanaina] 539
[Love Chants] 540
[Ode to Love] 544
[Song to Hiiaka] 545
[Ode to Kaiko] 546

[Index] 547 [[1448]]

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FORNANDER COLLECTION
OF
HAWAIIAN ANTIQUITIES AND FOLK-LORE

THE HAWAIIANS’ ACCOUNT OF THE FORMATION OF THEIR ISLANDS AND ORIGIN OF THEIR RACE WITH THE TRADITIONS OF THEIR MIGRATIONS, Etc., AS GATHERED FROM ORIGINAL SOURCES

BY
ABRAHAM FORNANDER
Author of “An Account of the Polynesian Race”
WITH TRANSLATIONS EDITED AND ILLUSTRATED WITH NOTES BY
THOMAS G. THRUM

Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum

Volume VI—Part I

HONOLULU, H. I.
Bishop Museum Press
1919

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