O Lono, Lono, God Lono on high, Lono, whose realm is the watery vast-- Inspirer, promoter, art thou; Give aid to this work of perfect cure; Thou givest life's magic to water, The living water, Water of Kane, The living Water of Kanaloa, Which flows in the east, flows in the west, In the bubbling fount, in heaven's rain. Speed now, urge on the cure!
Prayer quickly followed prayer, like the moving pictures in a shifting scene:
Eia ana au, e Laká, [336] Kane a Ha'i-wahine; Ha'i pua o ka nahelehele, Ha'i hana maile o ka wao, Houluulu lei ho'i o Laká; O Hiiaka kaula mana ia, e; Nana i ho'uluulu na ma'i; A a'e, a ulu, a noho i kou kahu. Eia ka wai la, he Wai ola, e! E ola, ho'i, e-e!
Here stand I in stress, Laká, Thou husband of Ha'inakolo; What flowers have I plucked in the wild, What maile stripped in the forest, To twine into wreaths for Laká! Thus toiled the seer Hiiaka; For hers was the magic of cure. But come thou, mount, enter, possess; Give life to thy servant and priest. Here's water, the Water of Life! Grant life in abundance, life!
The conclusion of this prayer saw Lohiau quite restored to consciousness, but in a state of utter bewilderment as to his surroundings. He found himself most unaccountably in a small rocky chamber with two women who were utter strangers in attendance on him. Before him, as he looked out, hung the apron of a mountain precipice, while in the distance and far below tossed the ocean, a familiar sight that called him back to earth at once, stirring pleasant fancies in his mind and waking in him a yearning for the sea.
THEY DESCEND FROM THE CLIFF BY RAINBOW BRIDGES--LOHIAU, RESTORED, GOES A-SURFING
Hiiaka's work of healing was now accomplished. She had seen the cold and withered form gain fullness, warmth and color; been cheered by the oö-a-moa, the crowing sigh that came with the inrush of air to the lungs--and now he stood before her in physical perfection.
The question--asked by Wahine-oma'o--how they were to climb down from their inaccessible position was answered by the sudden appearance of three rainbows that arched themselves conveniently at their feet, and on these, as on ladders, they climbed from the dizzy height to the sleeping village below. Under the priestly guidance of Hiiaka, they all now resorted to the ocean and with the aid of its waters performed the rite of cleansing from the ceremonial defilement that came from the touch of a corpse. With this cleansing each one of them seemed to have a new birth of physical perfection. As they came up out of the water their bodies seemed actually to glow with a fresh and radiant beauty.