**5.** *Ho'oku'u* **(Release)—What's Next?**

Before we depart from a place, we ask permission to leave. So, we ask your permission for release from this ritual expression of engaging you with this article. It is always appropriate to leave *makana* (gifts) of thanks with a host. So, we leave you with the very tools that aided us in our own journey to re-establish our relationship with the genealogies of the places and people of Hawai'i and beyond. First is the *mele* "'O Wakea Noho i ¯ a Papah ¯ anaumoku," which serves to orient you as a human being ¯ to your global, regional, and personal genealogical relationships to Hawai'i and beyond the horizon. To learn this *mele* is to engage one of many of the genealogies of the Hawai'i landscape. To engage the *mele* is to become a part of it.
