A pono au, a pono kaua.
Footnote 33:[(return) ] Mo’o-helaia. A female deity, a kupua, who at death became one of the divinities, au-makua, of the hula. Her name was conferred on the place claimed as her residence, on Mauna-loa, island of Molokai.
Footnote 34:[(return) ] Ohia-Ku. Full name ohia-ku-makua; a variety of the ohìa, or lehua (pl. XIII), whose wood was used in making temple gods. A rough stem of this tree stood on each side near the hala-pepe. (See pl. III, also pp. 19-20.)
Footnote 35:[(return) ] Mauna-loa. Said to be the mountain of that name on Molokai, not that on Hawaii.
Footnote 36:[(return) ] Kaulana-ula. Full form Kaulana-a-ula; the name of a deity belonging to the order, papa, of the hula. Its meaning is explained in the expression ula leo, in the next line.
Footnote 37:[(return) ] Ula leo. A singing or trilling sound, a tinnitus aurium, a sign that the deity Kaulanaula was making some communication to the one who heard it.
“By the pricking of my thumbs Something wicked this way comes.”
[Translation.]
Altar-Prayer
Laka sits in her shady grove,