Crossword-Solution: KUMU 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The proper answer to this is "May Allah cause thee to have pleasure!" Hanna-kumu'llah, not "Allah yahannik!" which I have heard abominably perverted by Arnaut and other ruffians.

Hence in the ancient chants he is called _Kane-laa-uli, Kumu-uli, Kulu-ipo_, the fallen chief, he who fell on account of the tree, or names of similar import." According to those legends of Kumuhonua and Wela-ahi-lani, "at the time when the gods created the stars, they also created a multitude of angels, or spirits (_i kini akua_), who were not created like men, but made from the spittle of the gods (_i kuhaia_), to be their servants or messengers.

The explanation may be found, perhaps, in the fact that the priests of the temple held position by the sovereign’s appointment; they formed a hierarchy by themselves, whereas the position of the _kumu-hula_, who was also a priest, was open to anyone who fitted himself for it by training and study and by passing successfully the _ai-lolo_[2] ordeal.

The _kumu_ offered up prayers, sprinkled the offender with salt water and turmeric, commanded him to bathe in the ocean, and he was clean.

She was hailed as the “sister, wife, of god Lono,” as “the one who by striving attained favor with the gods of the upper ether;” as “the kumu[25] hula”—head teacher of the Terpsichorean art; “the fount of joy;” “the prophet who brings health to the sick;” “the one whose presence gives life.” In one of the prayers to Laka she is besought to come and take possession of the worshiper, to dwell in him as in a temple, to inspire him in all his parts and faculties—voice, hands, feet, the whole body.