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Wā ‘Elua Nai‘a Hānau ka i‘a hānau ka Nai‘a i ke kai lā holo |
Second Epic Nai‘a The i‘a gives birth, the Nai‘a gives birth in the sea swimming |
No ka Lawai‘a a me kāna Wahine Na Keonaona Kapuni-Reynolds I ke ao kahiko e noho ana kekahi lawai‘a ‘elemakule a me kāna wahine i loko o ko lāua pupupu hale. Iho aku ‘o ia i kai e lawai‘a ai a ‘ike ‘o ia i ka huhuki ‘ia o kona aho e kekahi ‘ano i‘a nunui. A puka aku ka i‘a i ka ‘ilikai ‘ike aku ka ‘elemakule he Nai‘a ia. ‘Ōlelo aku ka i‘a, “e ke kanaka, e ‘ae mai ‘oe i ko‘u ola, ‘a‘ohe o‘u makemake e ‘ai ‘ia e kou ‘ohana.” No‘ono‘o aku ka ‘elemakule, “inā makemake ‘oe i kou ola e ho‘oku‘u aku au iā ‘oe,” a ho‘oku‘u aku ‘o ia i ka Nai‘a i ke kai. I ia ahiahi ho‘i aku ‘o ia i ka wahine a ha‘i aku ‘o ia no ka Nai‘a kuikawā āna i lawai‘a ai ma ke kai. Pi‘i ka huhū o ka wahine i kona lohe ‘ana no ka ho‘oku‘u ‘ia ‘ana o ka Nai‘a a ha‘i aku ‘o ia i ke kāne. “E ho‘i ‘oe i ia kai a noi aku i ka Nai‘a no kekahi hale i ‘oi aku ka maika‘i ma mua o kēia.” A ao mai ka pō, iho ke kāne i ke kai me ke kaumaha o ka no‘ono‘o a ‘ōlelo aku i ke kai, “E ō mai ‘oe, e ka Nai‘a o ke kai, e ō mai ‘oe a kōkua mai ia‘u.” A lohe aku ka Nai‘a i kēia ‘ōlelo, puka aku ‘o ia a ha‘i aku i ka ‘elemakule, “he aha kāu mea i makemake ai?” Pane aku ka ‘elemakule, “e noi mai ana ka‘u wahine i hale hou nona. ‘Ōlelo hou ka Nai‘a, “inā ‘o ia kāna mea i makemake ai e ho‘i ‘oe i ka hale a e ‘ike ‘ia ana ka hale hou.” Iā ia i ho‘i aku i ka hale, ‘ike ‘o ia i kekahi hale pili nunui ma kahi o kona wahi pupupu hale a lohe aku ‘o ia i ka leo hau‘oli o kāna wahine i loko o ka hale. I ia pō, ‘a‘ole i hiki i ka wahine ke hiamoe a ha‘i hou ‘o ia i ke kāne i ka mea like o ka pō ma mua, eia na‘e i kēia manawa ua makemake ‘o ia i kekahi hale i ‘oi aku ka nui, a i ‘āina i ‘oi aku ka nui a i ka loa‘a o kekahi mokupuni holo‘ōko‘a iā lākou. I ke kāne nō e noho minamina ana i ka hale nui, e nānā aku ana ka wahine i nā hōkū o ka lani a komo maila ka mana‘o i loko ona. “E ke kāne!! E ho‘i ‘oe i kai i kakahiaka a noi aku i ka Nai‘a no nā hōkū, ka mahina a me ka lā, makemake au i ia mau mea no‘u iho.” A lohe aku ke kāne i kēia, pū‘iwa loa kona mana‘o, “Pehea ho‘i e ka wahine? makemake ‘oe i nā mea a pau, āhea ‘oe e hau‘oli ai?” A kauoha aku ka luahine e noho ali‘i ana i ia manawa, “E hele aku ‘oe i kai!” A ho‘i ka ‘elemakule i kai, kāhea hou ‘o ia i ka Nai‘a a noi aku iā ia e like ho‘i me ka makemake o kāna wahine. ‘Aka‘aka aku ka Nai‘a a ‘ōlelo aku iā ia, “Makemake kou wahine inā mea a pau, a ‘oiai ‘a‘ole hiki ia‘u ke ha‘awi aku iā ia i kāna makemake e ho‘i ‘olua i ko ‘olua wahi pupupu hale.” Ho‘i hau‘oli ka ‘elemakule i ka hale a ma laila lāua i noho ha‘aha‘a ai me ka noi ‘ole no kekahi ‘ano mea.
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About
The Fisherman and His Wife
By Keonaona Kapuni-Reynolds In centuries past an old fisherman and his wife were living in their hovel. One day, he went down to sea to fish for his wares, when he felt something tugging on his line. It was a big fish. As the fish broke the surface of the sea, the old man saw that it was a dolphin. The fish then said, “dear man, let me have my life, I have no desire to be eaten by you and your family.” The old man thought for a while, “if you want your life I will release you” and he released the dolphin into the sea. That night as he returned to his wife he told her about the amazing dolphin that he caught at sea. His wife’s anger rose when she heard that her husband released the dolphin and she told her husband, “you will return to sea and ask the dolphin for a better house then the one we have now.” In the morning, the man went down to sea weighed heavily with sadness and said, “hear me, oh dolphin of the sea, Hear me and please help me.” As the dolphin heard this he came out of the ocean and asked the old man, “What is it that you want?” The old man answered, “my wife is asking for a new house.” The dolphin then replied, “if that is her wish, go back home and you will see a new house.” When he returned, he saw a big house in place of his small hovel and he heard his wife’s cries of joy inside the house. That night his wife couldn’t sleep and she talked to her husband like the night before, however this time she wanted a house that was bigger, and wished for land that was much bigger, until they owned a whole island. As the husband sat miserably in the new house, his wife was staring up at the stars above and another wish came to mind. “Husband!! Return to sea in the morning and ask the dolphin for the stars, the moon and the sun, I want all those things for myself.” When her husband heard this he was shocked, “how is that woman? You want everything, when will you be happy?” And the old woman who was now queen at that time said, “Go to sea!” As the old man returned to sea, he called again to the dolphin as his wife wanted. The dolphin then laughed and said, “your woman wants everything, and since I cannot give her what she wants you two will return to your little hovel.” The husband returned home joyful and that is where they both lived humbly without asking for anything more.
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No Ke‘elikōlani Mai loko mai ‘o Hawaiian Antiquities and Folklore, na Pipi Ka pūko‘a kū,
kai kohola ka lani, |
No Ke‘elikōlani From Hawaiian Antiquities and Folklore, by Pipi The upright coral of the shallow sea, the chief |
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