"If anyone else had come to get him, I would not have consented; since
you come in person, I will not keep him back.
"Indeed, your brother has said that you are the one he loves best and
thinks the most of; so let us go up and see your brother.
"Now you wait here; let me call the bird guardian of you two, who will
bear us to the taboo house at the borders of Tahiti."
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[71] 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.
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