alio, abducts Laieikawai
while she and her lover are out surfing, by his superior dexterity wins
her affection, and makes off with her to Paliuli. When the grandmother
discovers her grandchild's disgrace, she throws the girl over and
seeks out her twin sister on Oahu to offer as bride to the great chief
of Kauai. So beautiful is Laielohelohe that now the Puna rascal abandons
his wife and almost tricks the new beauty out of the hands of the noble
bridegroom; but this time the marriage is successfully managed, the
mists clear, and bride and bridegroom appear mounted upon birds, while
all the people shout, "The marriage of the chiefs!" The spectacle is
witnessed by the abandoned beauty and her guardians, who have come
thither riding upon the great lizard; and on this occasion Waka
denounces and disgraces her disowned grandchild.

Left alone by her grandmother, lordly lover, and rascally husband,
Laieikawai turns to the five virgin sisters and the great lizard to
raise her fortunes. The youngest sister proposes to make a journey to
Kealohilani, or the Shining-heavens, and fetch thence her oldest
brother, who dwells in the "taboo house on the borders of Tahiti." As a
youth of the highest divine rank, he will be a fit mate to wed her
mistress. The chiefess consents, and during the absence of the
ambassadress, goes journeying with her four remaining guardians. During
this journey she is seen and recognized by the prophet of Kauai, who has
for many years been on the lookout for the sign of the rainbow. Under
his guardianship she and the four sisters travel to Kauai, to which
place the scene now shifts. Here they once more face Aiwohikupua, and
the prophet predicts the coming of the avenger. Meanwhile the lizard
bears the youngest sister over sea. She ascends to various regions of
the heavens, placating in turn her maternal uncles, father, and mother,
until finally she reaches the god himself, where he lies basking in the
white radiance of the noonday sun. Hearing her story, this divine one
agrees to lay aside his nature as a god and descend to earth to wed his
sister's benefactress and avenge the injuries done by his brother and
Waka. Signs in the heavens herald his approach; he appears within the
sun at the back of the mountain and finally stands before his bride,
whom he takes up with him on a rainbow to the moon. At his return, as he
stands upon the rainbow, a great sound of shouting is heard over the
land in praise of his b