566 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI [ETH. ANN. 82 
Then the mother called: 
O Halulu at the edge of the light, 
The bird who covers the sun, 
The heat returns to Kealohilani. 
The bird who stops up the rain, 
The stream-heads are dry of Nuumealani. 
The bird who holds back the clouds above, 
The painted clouds move across the ocean, 
The islands are flooded, 
Kahakaekaea trembles, 
The heavens flood not the earth. 
O the lawless ones, the mischief makers! 
O Mokukelekahiki ! 
O Kaeloikamalama ! 
The lawless ones who close the taboo house at the borders of Tahiti, 
Here is one from the heavens, a child of yours, 
Come and receive her, take her above to Awakea, the noonday. 
Then that bird’* drooped its wings down and its body remained 
aloft, then Laukieleula and Kahalaomapuana rested upon the bird’s 
wings and it flew and came to Awakea, the Noonday, the one who 
opens the door of the sun where Kaonohiokala lived. 
At the time they arrived, the entrance to the chief’s house was 
blocked by thunderclouds. 
Then Laukieleula ordered Noonday, “ Open the way to the chief’s 
place!” 
Then Noonday put forth her heat and the clouds melted before 
her; lo! the chief appeared sleeping right in the eye of the sun in 
the fire of its intensest heat, so he was named after this custom 
The Eye of the Sun. 
Then Laukieleula seized hold of one of the sun’s rays and held it. 
Then the chief awoke. 
When Kohalaomapuana looked upon her brother his eyes were 
like lightning and his skin all over his body was like the heat of the 
furnace where iron is melted. 
Laukieleula cried out, “O my heavenly one, here is your sister, 
Kahalaomapuana, the one you love best, here she is come to seek you.” 
When Kaonohiokala heard he awoke from sleep and signed with 
his eyes to Laukieleula to call the guards of the shade. She called: 
O big bright moon, 
O moving cloud of Kaialea, 
Guards of the shadows, present yourselves before the chief. 
Then the guards of the shade came and stood before the chief. Lo! 
the heat of the sun left the chief. 
When the shadows came over the place where the chief lay, then 
he called his sister, and went to her, and wept over her, for his heart 
fainted with love for his youngest sister, and long had been the days 
of their separation. 
