580 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI LETH. ANN. 33 
In the dusk of the evening, at the rising of the bright full moon, 
he entered the prophet’s inclosure. 
When he came, all his sisters bowed down before him, and the 
prophet before the Beloved. 
And Laieikawai was about to do the same; when the Beloved saw 
Laieikawai about to kneel he cried out, “O my wife and ruler! O 
Laieikawai! do not kneel, we are equals.” 
“My lord, I am amazed and tremble, and if you desire to take my 
life, it is well; for never have I met before with anyone so terrible 
as this!” answered Laieikawai. 
“TJ have not come to take your life, but on my sister’s visit to me 
I gave her a sign for me to know you by and recognize you as my 
betrothed wife; and therefore have I come to fulfill her mission,” so 
said Kaonohiokala. 
When his sisters and the seer heard, then they shouted with joyful 
voices, “ Amen! Amen! Amen! it is finished, flown beyond!” They 
rose up with joy in their eyes. 
Then he called to his sisters, “I take my wife and at this time of 
the night will come again hither.” Then his wife was caught away 
out of sight of her companions, but the prophet had a glimpse of 
her being carried on the rainbow to dwell within the moon; there 
they took in pledge their moments of bliss. 
And the next night when the moon shone bright, at the time when 
its light decreased, a rainbow was let down, fastened to the moon 
and reaching to the earth; when the moon was directly over Honopu- 
waiakua, then the chiefs appeared above in the sky in their majesty 
and stood before the prophet, saying: “Go and summon all the people 
for ten days to gather together in one place; then I will declare my 
wrath against those who have done you wrong. 
“At the end of ten days, then we shall meet again, and I will tell 
you what is well for you to do, and my sisters with you.” 
When these words were ended the seer went away, and when he 
had departed the five sisters were taken up to dwell with the wife 
in the shelter of the moon. 
On the seer’s circuit, according to the command of the Beloved, he 
did not encounter a single person, for all had gone up to Pihanaka- 
Jani, the place where it had been predicted that victory should be 
accomplished. 
