Pele meets Lohi‘au

When the assembly saw this beauty walking along, adorned with all of her splendor, they cried out with admiring voices about this elegant woman, unmatched anywhere on Kaua‘i.

Truly, this queen of the sunrise at Ha‘eha‘e exhibited every possible aspect of her stunning loveliness. The radiance of Pele’s features here was compared to that of the full moon on the night of Māhealani. A ravishing beauty indeed!

Then Pele approached where the crowd was gathered, and they parted so that the beautiful stranger, in all of her glory, had a path to walk.

Outside of the chiefs’ hall of the hula, the assembly of people split themselves in two, and the chiefess of the crater moved, with all of the glittering dignity and majesty of her rank, through the gap the crowd made for this unfamiliar beauty to pass.

At the passage of a beautiful woman
The voices on the plain are stilled
The chatter of the birds is silenced
Life is made peaceful and calm.

As this wondrous beauty approached, she was noticed by the chiefs assembled in the house where Lohi‘auipo and his friend were dancing, who then called out, “Come, come inside. Welcome!”