{"collection":"pac","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/pac/ei/ei52.htm","path":"pac/ei/ei52.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/pac/ei/ei52.htm","text":"Te Pito Te Henua, or Easter Island, by William J. Thompson, [1891]\n(Plates XLII and XLIII.)\nKa ihi uiga ---- te ki ati ----\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Auwe te poki, e ----\n Ite maki tana ---- Rii te hiva ina.\n Ka ihi uiga ---- mai.\n2.\nKa ihi uiga ---- te ki ati ----\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Auwe te poki, e ----\n Ite maki tana ---- Honiti ina.\n Ka ihi uiga ---- moa mai.\n3.\nHa imu, ---- poki ---- e ----;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ta auwe rai ---- e;\n Viviri rai, inage ---- o;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I ----- ruga ---- i;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Te papare hinua\n Viviri rai ---- inage ---- o!\n4.\nHaki ---- e!\n Avahinua ---- ki tagu atu.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Auwe poki ---- e!\n Ava rai ----\n Ava mata ---- Ina hiva\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Auwe poki ---- e!\n Ite renia o parapa moni\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Auwe poki ---- e!\nThis is an old song, supposed to have descended from the time the first inhabitants arrived on the island. The father is believed to mourn for his child left in that eastern land, from which tradition states the People migrated.\nThe sail of my daughter,\n \u00a0\u00a0Never broken by the force of foreign clans!\n The sail of my daughter,\n \u00a0\u00a0Unbroken by the conspiracy of Honiti!\n Ever victorious in all her fights\n \u00a0\u00a0She could not be enticed to drink poison waters\n In the cup of obsidian glass.\n \u00a0\u00a0Can my sorrow ever be appeased\n While we are divided by the mighty seas?\n \u00a0\u00a0Oh my daughter, oh my daughter!\n It is a vast and watery road\n \u00a0\u00a0Over which I look toward the horizon,\n My daughter, oh my daughter!\n \u00a0\u00a0I'll swim over the deep to meet you,\n My daughter, oh my daughter!\n \n OBVERSE OF EASTER ISLAND WOODEN TABLET \"KA IHI UIGA\"\n (From photographs presented by George Davidson to the California Academy of Sciences)\n \n REVERSE OF EASTER ISLAND WOODEN TABLET \"KA IHI UIGA\"\n (From photographs presented by George Davidson to the California Academy of Sciences)","title":"Te Pito Te Henua, or Easter Island: Text of the Easter Island Tablets: Father Mourning the Loss of His Child","type":"page"}