TRANSLATION

Awake now, awake, awake!

Wake, Goddess of multiple god-power!

Wake, Goddess of essence most godlike!

Wake, Queen of the lightning shaft,

The piercing fourth eye of heaven!

Awake; I pray thee awake!

The effect was magical: Pele’s bosom heaved; breath entered her lungs; a fresh color came to her face, and spread to the tips of her ears. She sighed, stretched herself and sat up: she was herself again.


[1] This Laupahoehoe is to be distinguished from that in Hilo. [↑]