Kasawayo said:
“Though you are now turned into a handsome god, still I do not like you. You do not look as beautiful as the Fijian youth, Kora.”
On hearing this, the god got into a terrible rage. Then, quickly cooling down, he said:
“If you will only love me, I will let you walk through the forest by night in your own shape, for, though you are beautiful, you are not as lovely as you were when you had a woman’s form in Mbau. Now will you love me?”
For a moment Kasawayo sat couched in the moonshine, thinking over what the god Buli-buli had said. Then she looked up into his glistening serpent-like eyes, and said:
“I am in your power, so I will do my best to please and love you.”
Immediately the god heard Kasawayo say this, he said in a terrible voice that echoed through the hollow cavern:
“Wathi! wathi!”
Before the echoes had faded away Kasawayo stood shining in the moonshine. She was once more transformed back into a beautiful goddess.
Being a heathen serpent-god, and having none of the passions of the mortals, Buli-buli simply gazed upon Kasawayo, and said: