The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 569 pages of information about The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai.

The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 569 pages of information about The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai.

When the grandmother came to them, they were both fast asleep, like new lovers, as if the nights were the time for waking.

As Laieikawai lay asleep, her grandmother looked and saw that the man sleeping with her grandchild was not the one she had chosen for her.

Then Waka wakened the grandchild, and when she awoke the grandmother asked, “Who is this?”

Answered the grandchild, “Kekalukaluokewa, of course.”

Said the grandmother in a rage, “This is no Kekalukaluokewa; this is Halaaniani, the brother of Malio.  Therefore, I give you my oath never to see your face again, my grandchild, from this time until I die, for you have disobeyed me.  I thought to hide you away until you could care for me.  But now, live with your husband for the future; keep your beauty, your supernatural power is yours no longer; that you must look for from your husband; work with your own hands; let your husband be your fortune and your pride.”

After this Waka made ready to build another house like that she had built for Laieikawai.  And by Waka’s art the house was speedily completed.

When the house was ready, Waka went herself to meet Kekalukaluokewa in person, for her heart yearned with love for Kakalukaluokewa.

When Waka reached Kekalukaluokewa’s place, she clasped his feet and said, with sorrowful heart:  “Great is my grief and my love for you, O chief, for I desired you for my grandchild as the man to save these bones.  I thought my grandchild was a good girl, not so!  I saw her sleeping with Halaaniani, not the man I had chosen for her.  Therefore, I come to beseech you to give me a canoe and men also, and I will go and get the foster child of Kapukaihaoa, Laielohelohe,[66] who is like Laieikawai, for they are twins.”

And for this journey Kekalukaluokewa gave a double canoe with men and all the equipment.

Before Waka went after Laielohelohe she commanded Kekalukaluokewa as follows:  “I shall be gone three times ten days and three days over, then I shall return.  Keep watch, and if the mist rises on the ocean, then you will know that I am returning with your wife, then purify yourself for two days before the marriage.”

According to her determination, Waka sailed to Oahu, where the canoes landed at Honouliuli and Waka saw the rainbow arching up at Wahiawa.

She took a little pig to sacrifice before Kapukaihaoa, the priest who took care of Laielohelohe, and went up thither.

Waka went up and reached Kukaniloko; she draw near the place where Laielohelohe was hidden, held the pig out to the priest and prayed, and came to the amen, then she let the pig go.

The priest asked, “Why do you bring me the pig?  What can I do for you?”

Said Waka, “My foster child has sinned, she is not a good girl; I wished to have the chief of Kauai for her husband, but she would not listen to me, she became Halaaniani’s; therefore, I come to take your foster child to be the wife of Kekalukaluokewa, the chief of Kauai.  We two shall be provided for, he will preserve our bones in the days of our old age until we die, and when that chief is ours my foster child will be supplanted, and she will realize how she has sinned.”

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