Ye rows of gods,
Ye assemblies of gods,
Ye older brothers of the gods,
Ye gods that whisper,
Ye gods that watch by night,
Ye gods that show your gleaming eyes by night,
Come down, awake, make a move, stir yourselves!
There is the house, the house.”
And when she uttered this spell the Queen, who was dancing, fell down on the ground. Fire burst out all around the house. And then Lau-kia-manu, in the light of the fires, in the light of her own beauty, stood in the doorway of the house. Ula the Prince saw her there. “Come to me, oh, come to me, beautiful woman,” he said. But Lau-kia-manu made answer: “I will not go to you now, nor ever again. In your own country you did not cherish me, but you left me to sorrow and affliction. Now I go back to Ku-ai-he-lani.” So she left the burning house, and she went down to the sea-shore. She called upon the turtle with the shiny back, her grandmother of the sea; and the turtle came and opened the shell on her [[129]]back, and Lau-kia-manu went within it. And she journeyed through the ocean, under the waves, and came back again to the land of Ku-ai-he-lani, and there ever afterwards she stayed. [[131]]