AN ACCOUNT

OF

THE CREATION OF THE WORLD

ACCORDING TO

HAWAIIAN TRADITION

TRANSLATED FROM ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS PRESERVED EXCLUSIVELY IN HER MAJESTY'S FAMILY

BY

LILIUOKALANI OF HAWAII

PRAYER OF DEDICATION

THE CREATION

FOR

KA Ii MAMAO

FROM HIM TO HIS DAUGHTER

ALAPAI WAHINE

LILIUOKALANI'S GREAT-GRANDMOTHER

COMPOSED BY

KEAULUMOKU IN 1700 AND TRANSLATED BY LILIUOKALANI DURING HER IMPRISONMENT IN 1895 AT IOLANI PALACE AND AFTERWARDS AT WASHINGTON PLACE HONOLULU WAS COMPLETED AT WASHINGTON D.C. MAY 20, 1897

Lee and Shepard, Boston

[1897]

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Scanned at sacred-texts.com, April 2005. John Bruno Hare, redactor. This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published prior to 1923. These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose provided this notice of attribution is left intact in all copies.