Luk-of-Heaven was a Uone man. Reportedly he was a master speaker who knew all the stories of olden times. When he became an old man he got sick, worsened, and died. Now when he had closed his eyes in death, those beside him did not decide to bury his body quickly.

When he had died and was lying on his mat, his body was lying there but his spirit was going about everywhere, reportedly walking on the seas and under the seas and going to the lands abroad and the lands nearby, until finally his spiritual voyage was finished, and his spirit returned again into his body, and he came to life again.

He then composed a song, supposedly a song about his spiritual travels around ths earth. And there were many who were astounded at this man’s travels, and also at how he could compose this song after having died and come to life, and was again clever and could fit the words of the song together so that they would go along well. And those who were with him learned the song.

LUELEN BERNART, born November 28, 1866, was a Pohnpeian nobleman of the Likitan clan (which held the title of Nahnken, prime minister) with strong ties to the ruling families of two of the five kingdoms of Pohnpei. His book, a compilation of the legends, myths, chants, songs, spells, and botanical lore of Pohnpei, was the first written by a Micronesian.