Hānau Kū

Hānau Kū

‘O Kū lā auane’i ho’i ko luna

‘O wai lā ho’i ko lalo

‘O wai lā

‘O Hāloa puka kānaka

When the hands of the next generation carry in the shift of the season, the ancestors gather to stand at the four corners of the universe

The lineages of story keepers who whisper remembrances that echo on our bones and live in our blood resound as our voices become ceremony

Kupukupu fern to water of mountain rivers to salt of vast oceans to ‘ōlena of a land in reclamation

To the sacred carved body of wood held closely to the chest of a young man who’s name came in a dream

The time of Kū has indeed begun

Sound the pahu

Sound the pū

‘Eli’eli kapu

‘Eli’eli noa

Noa Honua

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