Adult Hula Notes - November

We will start the month with “Kuʻu Ipo i ka Heʻe Puʻe One” by Princess Miriam Likelike

From Huapala.org - Translated by Ruth Tyau & Sam Elbert - Perhaps the most famous of Likelike's compositions, many believe it was written for a heartbroken girl who could not marry the love of her life. The middle of January, 1887, a large school of ʻāweoweo, a small, red fish was seen off the coast of the island of Hawai`i, where Likelike had once been governor. The massing of the bright red fish close to shore was considered an omen of death for members of the Kalākaua dynasty. Feb. 2, 1887, Princess Likelike died at age 36. There were rumors that she was prayed to death by a powerful ʻanaʻana