E moe ana iloko o ke ao polohiwa.
E Ku e, e ho’i ka amama[41] i ka lani;
E Ku e, e ho’i ke ola ia Hiiaka-i-ka-poli-o-Pele,
A ola loa no, a-a!
It was such a voice of utterance as this (leo) that the two boys who went in before Pele desired. These two messenger-boys, by the way, are, in another account, spoken of as birds.
The purpose of Kane in sending out this leo seems to have been to rouse into activity the earth-strata, na papa honua.
TRANSLATION
The voice from above of a man supreme
Flies east, flies west, in the cry of a bird:
Curl over, thou yeasty billow of Kane!