She once had a contest there;

She had no tenant to guard the place.

Pele spurns with her feet the long waves;

They give back a flash like her eye,

A flash that’s repeated on high.

Wonder and awe possess me!

When Pele came voyaging from the east

And landed at Mo’o-kini—

The rain poured down at Ku-malae—

Her people set up an image,