text:  Novelo i Kaua'i Kua Papa features collections of Hawaiian chants, stories, nuances, and more from the repository of Halaupalaihiwa o Kaipuai. Volume 1 of Novelo began at the piku, or the very center of Kaua'i, with tributes for Wai'aleale, Kaua'i's primordial source of sacred, life-giving waters.