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Wā ‘Elua Moano Hānau ka Manō, hānau ka Moano i ke kai lā holo |
Second Epic Moano The Manō gives birth, the Moano gives birth in the sea swimming |
No ka Moanonuikalehua Na Keonaona Kapuni-Reynolds Ma kēia ‘āina nei, ma kai na‘e o nā pali o Hāmākua i noho ai nā Moano o ke kai. Holo aku holo mai ka Moano i ‘ō a i ‘ane‘i ma lalo o ia mau pali. He mau i‘a ma‘amau ia koe wale ka ikaika ‘ula‘ula o ka Moano o ia wahi. A hele ‘oe a puni ka ‘āina ‘a‘ole e like ana ka ikaika o ka ‘ula‘ula me kēia mau i‘a. I kekahi lā iā Kalehua e lawai‘a ana i kai ‘ike ‘o ia i ka wena ‘ula ma kai a mana‘o ihola ‘o ia, he aha ia wena ma lalo o ke kai? Kiola aku ‘o ia i ke aho i ke kai, a pā maila ka ‘a‘aki o ka i‘a, huki a‘ela ‘o ia i ke aho a pa‘a ka i‘a i ka makau. A ho‘omaka ‘o ia e huki a‘e i ke aho, ‘ike ‘ia ka ulu nui o ka ikaika o ka ‘ula‘ula e pi‘i ana mai lalo mai o ke kai. A puka a‘e ka Moano i ke kai pā ikaika mai ka ‘ula o ka i‘a a hā‘ule ihola ‘o Kalehua i ka wa‘a. “He aha ho‘i kēlā?” i nīnau ai ‘o Kalehua. A pa‘a kūpono ka no‘ono‘o, ‘ike ‘o ia i ka Moanonuikalehua e kāpekupeku ana i ke wa‘a. Hō ka ‘ula‘ula o kēia i‘a. Ho‘i ‘o ia i uka a mōhai aku i kēia Moano i ke kū‘ula. Ho‘i ‘o ia i ka hale a ‘ai i ka i‘a me ka poi. Noho ‘o ia ma ka moena a no‘ono‘o, “pehea i ‘ula‘ula ai ka Moano?” I ke kakahiaka nui, iho ‘o ia i kai a noho i lalo ma ka pōhaku. Noho ‘o ia a pō ke ao a ao ka pō e maka‘ala ana i nā mea i hana ‘ia ma kai. Ho‘omākaukau a‘ela ‘o ia e ho‘i i ua wahi pupupu hale ona, ‘ike ‘o ia i ka helele‘i maila o ka lehua ‘ula‘ula i ke kai. Nānā aku ‘o ia i ka lehua e lana ana ma ka lihi kai a ‘ike ‘o ia i ka wena ‘ula‘ula like e pi‘i ana mai lalo o ke kai a nanahu i ka lehua ‘ula‘ula. Pēlā ho‘i! ‘O ia ke kumu i ‘ula‘ula ikaika ai ka Moanonuikalehua. No ia kumu i loa‘a ai kona inoa iā ia. A ma muli o ka noho ho‘omanawanui ‘o Kalehua i kai ua ‘ike ‘o ia i ke kumu i ‘ula‘ula ai ka Moano. |
For The Moanonuikalehua By Keonaona Kapuni-Reynolds On this land, seaward of the cliffs of Hāmākua lived a lot of Moano. They swam all over below those cliffs. They were regular fish except that they had a bright red glow about them. You could go around the island but you wouldn’t see the striking red glow of these fish anywhere else. One day as Kalehua was fishing at sea he saw a red glow underwater and thought to himself, what is that red glow in the ocean? He threw out his line into the sea, until he felt something nibbling at his hook. He pulled at the line until the fish was hooked onto the line. He started to pull in the line, he saw the brightness increase as he pulled it up from the sea. As the Moano broke the surface the redness of the fish shocked Kalehua and he fell back into the canoe. “What was that?” asked Kalehua. When he was once again able to think straight, he saw the Moanonuikalehua splashing in the canoe. This fish was incredibly red. As he returned to land he offered the Moano at the kū‘ula. He returned to the house and ate his fish and poi. He sat on the mat and thought, “Why is the Moano so red?” In the early morning he went down to sea and sat on a rock. He sat there until sunset and sunrise watching everything that happened at sea. As he prepared to return to his little shack, he saw a red lehua fall into the sea. He watched as the lehua floated on the surface of the sea and he saw that same familiar red glow in the water rising from the bottom until it ate the red lehua. That’s how it was done! The reason why the fish was so red is because he ate the lehua! That is how the Moanonuikalehua got its name. And because Kalehua patiently sat at sea, he was able to see how the Moano became so red. |
‘O ke kani a ka ‘ō‘ū Mai loko mai ‘o Ka Mo‘olelo Ka‘ao o Hi‘iakaikapoliopele, na Joseph M. Poepoe ‘O ke kani a ka ‘Ō‘ū, ‘o‘oloma‘o, |
‘O ke kani a ka ‘ō‘ū From Ka Mo‘olelo Ka‘ao o Hi‘iakaikapoliopele, by Joseph M. Poepoe The chirping of the ‘Ō‘ū bird, ‘o‘oloma‘o, |
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