id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 20299 Emerson, Nathaniel Bright Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula .txt text/plain 114287 11956 89 heart of the old-time Hawaiian as he approached the great think of the old-time Hawaiians as light-hearted children of The prayers which the hula folk of old times chanted while [Footnote 85: _Wai._ Literally water, refers to the bowl of of the hula," said one man, "had ways of fun-making peculiar [Footnote 236: Full form, _pahu-hula_.] The author of this love-song, _mele ipo_, is said to have island of Kauai, and at some places the hula was performed as This mele hoipoipo, love-song, like the one previously given, NOTE.--The music to which this hula song is set was produced The ancient Hawaiians naturally regarded the Pele hula with In ancient times the performance of the hula Pele, like that in the hula Pele, and by his skillfully-worded prayer-songs, E ALA, _e Kahiki-ku_: _mele_ for the _hula Pele_ 196 I ALOHA _i ke ko a ka wai: mele_ for the _hula ku'i_ 251 ./cache/20299.txt ./txt/20299.txt