Mokukelekahiki returned while the lizard was asleep inside the house; the head alone filled that great house of Mokukelekahiki’s, the body and tail of the lizard were still in the sea.

A terrible sight to Mokukelekahiki to see that lizard; he flew away up to Nuumealani, the Raised Place in the Heavens; there was Kaeloikamalama, the magician who closes the door of the taboo house on the borders of Tahiti, where Kaonohiokala was hidden.

Mokukelekahiki told Kaeloikamalama how he had seen the lizard.  Then Kaeloikamalama flew down with Mokukelekahiki from the heights of Nuumealani, the land in the air.

As Mokukelekahiki and his companion approached the house where the lizard was sleeping, then said Kihanuilulumoku to Kahalaomapuana, “When those men get here who are flying toward us, then I will throw you out and land you on Kaeloikamalama’s neck, and when he questions you, then tell him you are a child of theirs, and when he asks what our journey is for, then tell him.”

Not long after, Mokukelekahiki and Kaeloikamalama thundered at the door of the house.

When the lizard looked, there stood Kaeloikamalama with the digging spade called Kapahaelihonua, The Knife-that-cuts-the-earth, twenty fathoms its length, four men to span it.  Thought the lizard, “A slaughterer this.”  There was Kaeloikamalama swinging the digging spade in his fingers.

Then Kihanuilulumoku lifted his tail out of the water, the sea swelled, the waves overwhelmed the cliffs from their foundations as high waves sweep the coast in February; the spume of the sea rose high, the sun was darkened, white sand was flung on the shore.

Then fear fell upon Kaeloikamalama and his companion, and they started to run away from before the face of the lizard.

Then Kihanuilulumoku threw out Kahalaomapuana, and she fell upon Kaeloikamalama’s neck.[71]

Kaeloikamalama asked, “Whose child are you?”

Said Kahalaomapuana, “The child of Mokuekelekahiki, of Kaeloikamalama, of the magicians who guard the taboo house on the borders of Tahiti."[72]

The two asked, “On what journey, my child, do you come hither?”

Kahalaomapuana answered, “A journey to seek one from the heavens.”

Again they asked, “To seek what one from the heavens?”

“Kaonohiokala,” replied Kahalaomapuana, “the high taboo one of Kaeloikamalama and Mokukelekahiki.”

Again they asked, “Kaonohiokala found, what is he to do?”

Said Kahalaomapuana, “To be husband to the princess of broad Hawaii, to
Laieikawai, our mistress.”

Again they asked, “Who are you?”

She told them, “Kahalaomapuana, the youngest daughter of
Moanalihaikawaokele and Laukieleula."[73]

When Mokukelekahiki and Kaeloikamalama heard she was their own child, then they released her from Kaeloikamalama’s neck and kissed their daughter.

For Mokukelekahiki and Kaeloikamalama were brothers of Laukieleula,
Aiwohikupua’s mother.