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.
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