630 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LATEIKAWAI [ETH. ANN. 23 
wife of Makalii comes out of her house her beauty overshadows the rays of 
the sun, “ darkness covered the land, the red rain, fog, and fine rain followed 
each other, then freshets flowed and lightning played in the heavens; after 
this the form of the woman was seen coming along over the tips of the fingers 
of her servants, in all her beauty, the sun shone at her back and the rainbow 
was as though it were her footstool.” In the prayer to the god Lono, quoted 
by Fornander, II, 352, we read: 
“These are the sacred signs of the assembly ; 
Bursting forth is the voice of the thunder ; 
Striking are the rays of the lightning; 
Shaking the earth is the earthquake; 
Coming is the dark cloud and the rainbow; 
Wildly comes the rain and the wind; 
Whirlwinds sweep over the earth; 
Rolling down are the rocks of the ravines; 
The red mountain streams are rushing to the sea; 
Here the waterspouts ; 
Tumbled about are the clustering clouds of heaven; 
Gushing forth are the springs of the mountains.” 
CHAPTER XXXIV 
® Kaonohiokala, Mr. Emerson tells: me, is the name of one of the evil spirits 
invoked by the priest in the art of po’iuhane or “soul-eatching.” The spirit 
is sent by the priest to entice the soul of an enemy while its owner sleeps, in 
order that he may catch it in a coconut gourd and crush it to death between 
his hands. “ Lapu lapwwale” is the Hawaiian rendering of Solomon’s ejacu- 
lation ‘ Vanity of vanities!” 
