... again. At each place she stops, she and/or others sing or chant mele to or about the ʻāina, and ʻāina characters sing or chant back to her. The purpose of this chapter is to examine selections of these mele for their artistry and what they tell us about the ʻāina and the worldviews or epistemologies...

... through a selection from its hundreds of mele about the ʻāina. The bulk of the moʻolelo concerns Hiʻiaka’s epic journey across almost the entire archipelago from its easternmost point on Hawaiʻi to Kauaʻi in the west, and back again. At each place she stops, she and/or others sing or chant mele...

... genealogies, so that they are more readily understandable than in the old chants themselves, and in his many explanations of place names and the deeper meanings (kaona) of words, sayings, and so forth. Poepoe engages moʻokūʻauhau as a recurring way of connecting to ancestors (kupuna) and descendants (mamo...