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 Honopuwaiakua,
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.
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