336 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI [ETH. ANN. 83 
child’s disgrace, she throws the girl over and seeks out her twin 
_sister on Oahu to offer as bride to the great chief of Kauai. 
So beautiful is Laielohelohe that now the Puna rascal abandons 
his wife and almost. tricks the new beauty out of the hands of the 
noble bridegroom; but this time the marriage is successfully man- 
aged, the mists clear, and bride and bridegroom appear mounted 
upon birds, while all the people shout, “The marriage of the chiefs! ” 
The spectacle is witnessed by the abandoned beauty and her guard- 
ians, who have come thither riding upon the great lizard; and on this 
occasion Waka denounces and disgraces her disowned grandchild. 
Left alone by her grandmother, lordly lover, and rascally husband, 
Laieikawai turns to the five virgin sisters and the great lizard to 
raise her fortunes. The youngest sister proposes to make a journey 
to Kealohilani, or the Shining-heavens, and fetch thence her oldest 
brother, who dwells in the “taboo house on the borders of Tahiti.” 
A#a youth of the highest divine rank, he will be a fit mate to wed 
her mistress. The chiefess consents, and during the absence of the 
ambassadress, goes journeying with her four remaining guardians. 
During this journey she is seen and recognized by the prophet of 
Kauai, who has for many years been on the lookout for the 
sign of the’ rainbow. Under his guardianship she and the four 
sisters travel to Kauai, to which place the scene now shifts. 
Here they once more face Aiwohikupua, and the prophet pre- 
dicts the coming of the avenger. Meanwhile the lizard bears the 
youngest sister over sea. She ascends to various regions of the 
heavens, placating in turn her maternal uncles, father, and mother, 
until finally she reaches the god himself, where he lies basking in the 
white radiance of the noonday sun. Hearing her story, this divine 
one agrees to lay aside his nature as a god and descend to earth to 
wed his sister’s benefactress and avenge the injuries done by his 
brother and Waka. Signs in the heavens herald his approach; he 
appears within the sun at the back of the mountain and finally stands 
before his bride, whom he takes up with him on a rainbow to the 
moon. At his return, as he stands upon the rainbow, a great sound 
of shouting is heard over the land in praise of his beauty. Thus he 
deals out judgment upon Laieikawai’s enemies: Waka falls dead, 
and Aiwohikupua is dispossessed of his landed rights. Next, he re- 
wards her friends with positions of influence, and leaving the ruling 
power to his wife’s twin sister and her husband, returns with 
Laieikawai to his old home in the heavens. 
In the final chapters the Sun-god himself, who is called “The 
eyeball-of-the-sun,” proves unfaithful. He falls captive to the 
charms of the twin sister, sends his clever youngest sister, whose 
foresight he fears, to rule in the heavens, and himself goes down to 
