"On the way up, if fine rain covers you, that is your mother's doings;
if cold comes, do not be afraid. Keep on up; and if you smell a
fragrance, that too is your mother's, it is her fragrance, then all is
well, you are almost to the top; keep on up, and if the sun's rays
pierce and the heat strikes you, do not fear when you feel the sun's hot
breath; try to bear it and you will enter the shadow of the moon; then
you will not die, you have entered Kahakaekaea."
When they had finished talking, Kahalaomapuana climbed up, and in the
evening she was covered with fine rain; this she thought was her
father's doings; at night until dawn she smelled the fragrance of the
_kiele_ plant; this she thought was her mother's art; from dawn until
the sun was high she was in the heat of the sun, she thought this was
her brother's doing.
Then she longed to reach the shadow of the moon, and at evening she came
into the shadow of the moon; she knew then that she had entered the land
called Kahakaekaea.
She saw the big house standing, it was then night. She approached to the
leeward; lo! Moanalihaikawaokele was still awake; she waited at a
distance for him to go to sleep, as Kaeloikamalama had instructed her.
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