Primitive Man as Philosopher by Paul Radin

Author:Paul Radin
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, pdf
ISBN: 9781590178003
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2017-01-06T05:00:00+00:00

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THE WATER OF KANE

A query, a question,

I put to you:

Where is the water of Kane?

At the Eastern Gate

Where the Sun comes in at Haehae;

There is the water of Kane.

A question I ask of you:

Where is the water of Kane?

Out there with the floating Sun,

Where cloud-forms rest on Ocean’s breast,

Uplifting their forms at Nihoa,

This side the base of Lehua;

There is the water of Kane.

One question I put to you:

Where is the water of Kane?

Yonder on mountain peak,

On the ridges steep,

In the valleys deep,

Where the rivers sweep;

There is the water of Kane.

This question I ask of you:

Where, pray, is the water of Kane?

Yonder, at sea, on the ocean,

In the driving rain,

In the heavenly bow,

In the piled-up mist-wraith,

In the blood-red rainfall,

In the ghost-pale cloud-form;

There is the water of Kane.

One question I put to you:

Where, where is the water of Kane?

Up on high is the water of Kane,

In the heavenly blue,

In the black piled cloud,

In the black, black cloud,

In the black-mottled sacred cloud of the gods;

There is the water of Kane.

One question I ask of you:

Where flows the water of Kane?

Deep in the ground, in the gushing spring,

In the ducts of Kane and Loa,

A well-spring of water, to quaff,

A water of magic power—

The water of life!

Life! O give us this life!

Hawaii

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