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Then the air was darkened and it was filled with the cry of wailing
spirits and the voice of lamentation--"The divine one has fallen! The
divine one has fallen!!" And when the darkness was over, lo!
Moanalihaikawaokele and Laukieleula and Laieikawai sat above the rainbow
pathway.
And Moanalihaikawaokele said to Kaonohiokala, "You have sinned, O
Kaonohiokala, for you have defiled yourself and, therefore, you shall no
longer have a place to dwell within Kahakaekaea, and the penalty you
shall pay, to become a fearsome thing on the highway and at the doors of
houses, and your name is Lapu, Vanity, and for your food you shall eat
moths; and thus shall you live and your posterity."
Then was the pathway taken from him through his father's supernatural
might. Then they returned to Kahakaekaea.
In this story it is told how Kaonohiokala was the first ghost on these
islands, and from his day to this, the ghosts wander from place to
place, and they resemble evil spirits in their nature.[76]
On the way back after Kaonohiokala's punishment, they encountered
Kahalaomapuana in Kealohilani, and for the first time discovered she was
there.
And at this discovery, Kahalaomapuana told the story of her dismissal,
as we saw in Chapter XXVII of this story, and at the end Kahalaomapuana
was taken to fill Kaonohiokala's place.
At Kahakaekaea, sometimes Laieikawai longed for Laielohelohe, but she
could do nothing; often she wept for her sister, and her parents-in-law
thought it strange to see Laieikawai's eyes looking as if she had wept.
Moanalihaikawaokele asked the reason for this; then she told him she
wept for her sister.
Said Moanalihaikawaokele, "Your sister can not live here with us, for
she is defiled with Kaonohiokala; but if you want your sister, then you
go and fill Kekalukaluokewa's place." Now Laieikawai readily assented to
this plan.
And on the day when Laieikawai was let down, Moanalihaikawaokele said,
"Return to your sister and live virgin until your death, and from this
time forth your name shall be no longer called Laieikawai, but your name
shall be 'The Woman of the Twilight,' and by this name shall all your
kin bow down to you and you shall be like a god to them."
And after this command, Moanalihaikawaokele took her, and both together
mounted upon the pathway and returned below.
Then, Moanalihaikawaokele said all these things told above, and when he
had ended he returned to the heavens and dwelt in
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