{"collection":"pac","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/pac/ei/ei53.htm","path":"pac/ei/ei53.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/pac/ei/ei53.htm","text":"Te Pito Te Henua, or Easter Island, by William J. Thompson, [1891]\n(Plates XLIV and XLV.)\nKa tagi, Renga-a-manu ---- hakaopa;\n \u00a0\u00a0Chiu runarame a ita metua.\n Ka ketu te nairo hihi ---- O to hoa!\n \u00a0\u00a0Eaha ton tiena ---- e te hoa ---- e!\nIta haga ta poapatu ---- O te hoa!\n \u00a0\u00a0Kahii te riva forani ---- O te hoa e!\n Auwe ka tagi ati ---- u ---- a ---- iti\u00a0iti.\n \u00a0\u00a0Eha ton tiena ---- e ta hoa ---- e.\nTa hi tiena ita have.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Horoa ita have.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Horoa moni e fahiti;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ita ori miro;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ana piri atu;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ana piri atu;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ana taga atu.\nWho is sorrowing? It is Renga-a-manu Hakopa?\n A red branch descended from her father.\n Open thine eyelids, my true love.\n Where is your brother, my love?\n At the feast in the Bay of Salutation\n We will meet under the feathers of your clan.\n She has long been yearning after you.\n Send your brother as a mediator of love between us,\n Your brother who is now at the house of my father.\n O, where is the messenger of love between us?\n When the feast of drift-wood is commemorated\n There we will meet in loving embrace.\n \n OBVERSE OF EASTER ISLAND WOODEN TABLET \"ATE A-RENGA-HOKAN ITI POHERAA\"\n (From photographs in possession of Bishop of Axieri. From photograph by Paymaster W. J. Thompson, U. S. N.)\n \n REVERSE OF EASTER ISLAND WOODEN TABLET \"ATE A-RENGA-HOKAN ITI POHERAA \"\n (From photographs in possession of Bishop of Axieri. From photograph by Paymaster W. J. Thompson, U. S. N.)","title":"Te Pito Te Henua, or Easter Island: Text of the Easter Is...","type":"page"}