Kumulipo

Glossary

• Hali‘a: Kane’s daughter
• Haumea: a goddess associated with fertility, childbearing, and wild-food plants
• He goes naked on the way to Malama: “He journeys to the afterlife”
• hilu: literally, “elegant,” a type of brightly colored fish
• Kamaha‘ina: Ki‘i‘s son
• Kane: literally, “male”
• Ki‘i: literally, “image”
• La‘ila‘i: a goddess and sister to Kane and Ki‘i
• Lo‘iloa: the legendary planter of taro; his children are the different varieties of taro plant.
• Lono-i-ka-makahiki: the chief Ka-‘i-‘i-mamao (or Kalaninui‘iamamao) whose birth the chant honors
• Maui: a popular demigod and hero in Polynesia
• Papa and Wakea: the legendary couple most commonly referred to as the ancestors of the Hawaiian people
• Pleiades: the time of the Makahiki, the four lunar months of the rainy season from approximately October to February
• Po‘ele‘ele: literally, “time of darkness”
• Pohaha: literally, “night breaking into dawn”
• Po-kanokano: literally, “night-digger”
• Po-lalo-uli: literally, “depth of night”
• Po-lalo-wehi: a combination of words for night, depth, and adornment or decoration
• Popanopano: a composite of po (night) and pano (dark or black)
• Po-uliuli: literally, “murky”
• Po-wehiwehi: literally, “obscure”