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Updated: June 23, 2025
And then had I now my son Tagipo with me, he who went into the bellies of the sharks at Tia Kau." A Memory Of The Paumotus I stayed once at Rotoava in the Low Archipelago, Eastern Polynesia while suffering from injuries received in a boat accident one wild night. My host, the Rotoava trader, was a sociable old pirate, whose convivial soul would never let him drink alone.
It was he through whom came the appointment of Kau. Oh! let us ever cherish the thought of him. In the eighth piece of the first decade we have an ode akin to this, relating a tentative progress of king Wu, to test the acceptance of his sovereignty. This is of a later date, and should be referred, probably, to the reign of king Khang, when the dynasty was fully acknowledged.
Shang-fu was one of Wu's principal leaders and counsellors, his 'Grand-Master Shang-fu' in the next stanza. As a gourd grows and extends, with a vast development of its tendrils and leaves, so had the House of Kau increased. These were two rivers in the territory of Pin, which name still remains in the small department of Pin Kau, in Shen-hsi.
It is difficult to trace the connexion between-these allusive lines and the rest of the piece. Here we have the lord of Kau in his ancestral temple, assisted by his ministers or great officers in pouring out the libations to the spirits of the departed.
With this a brother of king Wu, called Khang-shu, was invested. The principality was afterwards increased by the absorption of Phei and Yung. It came to embrace portions of the present provinces of Kih-li, Shan-tung, and Ho-nan. It outlasted the dynasty of Kau itself, the last prince of Wei being reduced to the ranks of the people only during the dynasty of Khin.
The king gave charge to the earl of Shao, To arrange all about the residence of the chief of Shin, Where he should do what was necessary for the regions of the south, And where his posterity might maintain his merit. Hsieh was in the present Fang Kau of the department of Nan-yang.
The sixth ode in the seventh decade of the Minor Odes of the Kingdom is attributed to the same duke of Wei as this; and the two bear traces of having proceeded from the same writer. The external authorities for assigning this piece to duke Wu are the statement of the preface and an article in the 'Narratives of the States, a work already referred to as belonging to the period of the Kau dynasty.
The demon of drought exercises his oppression, As if scattering flames and fire My heart is terrified with the heat; My sorrowing heart is as if on fire. The Equivalent to the extinction of the dynasty. The king had sacrificed to all the early lords of Kau. 'The many dukes' may comprehend kings Thai and Ki. He had also sacrificed to their ministers.
Famine comes again and again. There is no spirit I have not sacrificed to ; There is no victim I have grudged; Our We must translate here in the plural, 'the middle states' meaning all the states subject to the sovereign of Kau. jade symbols, oblong and round, are exhausted ; How is it that I am not heard? 'The drought is excessive; Its fervours become more and more tormenting.
From the first stanza of this piece it appears that she was married, and had been so for some time without having any child. But who her husband was it is impossible to say with certainty. As the Kau surname was Ki, he must have been one of the descendants of Hwang Ti.
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