Pele and HiiakaPolynesian MythologyLegend / Oral TraditionHawaiian and EnglishSharePele and Hiiaka 214Emerson - EnglishMoreVersion - 1 availableEmersonLanguageEnglishEspañol‹Pele and Hiiaka 1Pele and Hiiaka 2Pele and Hiiaka 3Pele and Hiiaka 4Pele and Hiiaka 5Pele and Hiiaka 6Pele and Hiiaka 7Pele and Hiiaka 8Pele and Hiiaka 9Pele and Hiiaka 10Pele and Hiiaka 11Pele and Hiiaka 12Pele and Hiiaka 13Pele and Hiiaka 14Pele and Hiiaka 15Pele and Hiiaka 16Pele and Hiiaka 17Pele and Hiiaka 18Pele and Hiiaka 19Pele and Hiiaka 20Pele and Hiiaka 21Pele and Hiiaka 22Pele and Hiiaka 23Pele and Hiiaka 24Pele and Hiiaka 25Pele and Hiiaka 26Pele and Hiiaka 27Pele and Hiiaka 28Pele and Hiiaka 29Pele and Hiiaka 30Pele and Hiiaka 31Pele and Hiiaka 32Pele and Hiiaka 33Pele and Hiiaka 34Pele and Hiiaka 35Pele and Hiiaka 36Pele and Hiiaka 37Pele and Hiiaka 38Pele and Hiiaka 39Pele and Hiiaka 40Pele and Hiiaka 41Pele and Hiiaka 42Pele and Hiiaka 43Pele and Hiiaka 44Pele and Hiiaka 45Pele and Hiiaka 46Pele and Hiiaka 47Pele and Hiiaka 48Pele and Hiiaka 49Pele and Hiiaka 50Pele and Hiiaka 51Pele and Hiiaka 52Pele and Hiiaka 53Pele and Hiiaka 54Pele and Hiiaka 55Pele and Hiiaka 56Pele and Hiiaka 57Pele and Hiiaka 58Pele and Hiiaka 59Pele and Hiiaka 60Pele and Hiiaka 61Pele and Hiiaka 62Pele and Hiiaka 63Pele and Hiiaka 64Pele and Hiiaka 65Pele and Hiiaka 66Pele and Hiiaka 67Pele and Hiiaka 68Pele and Hiiaka 69Pele and Hiiaka 70Pele and Hiiaka 71Pele and Hiiaka 72Pele and Hiiaka 73Pele and Hiiaka 74Pele and Hiiaka 75Pele and Hiiaka 76Pele and Hiiaka 77Pele and Hiiaka 78Pele and Hiiaka 79Pele and Hiiaka 80Pele and Hiiaka 81Pele and Hiiaka 82Pele and Hiiaka 83Pele and Hiiaka 84Pele and Hiiaka 85Pele and Hiiaka 86Pele and Hiiaka 87Pele and Hiiaka 88Pele and Hiiaka 89Pele and Hiiaka 90Pele and Hiiaka 91Pele and Hiiaka 92Pele and Hiiaka 93Pele and Hiiaka 94Pele and Hiiaka 95Pele and Hiiaka 96Pele and Hiiaka 97Pele and Hiiaka 98Pele and Hiiaka 99Pele and Hiiaka 100Pele and Hiiaka 101Pele and Hiiaka 102Pele and Hiiaka 103Pele and Hiiaka 104Pele and Hiiaka 105Pele and Hiiaka 106Pele and Hiiaka 107Pele and Hiiaka 108Pele and Hiiaka 109Pele and Hiiaka 110Pele and Hiiaka 111Pele and Hiiaka 112Pele and Hiiaka 113Pele and Hiiaka 114Pele and Hiiaka 115Pele and Hiiaka 116Pele and Hiiaka 117Pele and Hiiaka 118Pele and Hiiaka 119Pele and Hiiaka 120Pele and Hiiaka 121Pele and Hiiaka 122Pele and Hiiaka 123Pele and Hiiaka 124Pele and Hiiaka 125Pele and Hiiaka 126Pele and Hiiaka 127Pele and Hiiaka 128Pele and Hiiaka 129Pele and Hiiaka 130Pele and Hiiaka 131Pele and Hiiaka 132Pele and Hiiaka 133Pele and Hiiaka 134Pele and Hiiaka 135Pele and Hiiaka 136Pele and Hiiaka 137Pele and Hiiaka 138Pele and Hiiaka 139Pele and Hiiaka 140Pele and Hiiaka 141Pele and Hiiaka 142Pele and Hiiaka 143Pele and Hiiaka 144Pele and Hiiaka 145Pele and Hiiaka 146Pele and Hiiaka 147Pele and Hiiaka 148Pele and Hiiaka 149Pele and Hiiaka 150Pele and Hiiaka 151Pele and Hiiaka 152Pele and Hiiaka 153Pele and Hiiaka 154Pele and Hiiaka 155Pele and Hiiaka 156Pele and Hiiaka 157Pele and Hiiaka 158Pele and Hiiaka 159Pele and Hiiaka 160Pele and Hiiaka 161Pele and Hiiaka 162Pele and Hiiaka 163Pele and Hiiaka 164Pele and Hiiaka 165Pele and Hiiaka 166Pele and Hiiaka 167Pele and Hiiaka 168Pele and Hiiaka 169Pele and Hiiaka 170Pele and Hiiaka 171Pele and Hiiaka 172Pele and Hiiaka 173Pele and Hiiaka 174Pele and Hiiaka 175Pele and Hiiaka 176Pele and Hiiaka 177Pele and Hiiaka 178Pele and Hiiaka 179Pele and Hiiaka 180Pele and Hiiaka 181Pele and Hiiaka 182Pele and Hiiaka 183Pele and Hiiaka 184Pele and Hiiaka 185Pele and Hiiaka 186Pele and Hiiaka 187Pele and Hiiaka 188Pele and Hiiaka 189Pele and Hiiaka 190Pele and Hiiaka 191Pele and Hiiaka 192Pele and Hiiaka 193Pele and Hiiaka 194Pele and Hiiaka 195Pele and Hiiaka 196Pele and Hiiaka 197Pele and Hiiaka 198Pele and Hiiaka 199Pele and Hiiaka 200Pele and Hiiaka 201Pele and Hiiaka 202Pele and Hiiaka 203Pele and Hiiaka 204Pele and Hiiaka 205Pele and Hiiaka 206Pele and Hiiaka 207Pele and Hiiaka 208Pele and Hiiaka 209Pele and Hiiaka 210Pele and Hiiaka 211Pele and Hiiaka 212Pele and Hiiaka 213Pele and Hiiaka 214Pele and Hiiaka 215Pele and Hiiaka 216Pele and Hiiaka 217Pele and Hiiaka 218Pele and Hiiaka 219Pele and Hiiaka 220›TranslationPele and Hiiaka 214ListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter1The world is convulsed: the earth-plates sink To the nether domain of Wakea; Earth's rooted foundations are broken; Flame-billows lift their heads to the sky; The ocean-caves and reefs, the peopled land And the circle of island coast Are whelmed in one common disaster: The gleam of it reaches Kahiki:-- Such blush encircles the pale apple's eye. Heaven's blotted out, the whole sky darkened; Hoali'i's cliffs are shadowed with gloom. Now bellows the thunder of Winter; Ku-lani-ha-ko'i's banks are broken; Down pours a pitiless deluge of rain; There's rumble and groan of the earthquake, The reverberant roar of thunder, The roof-stripping swoop of the tempest. Tearing the thatch over Ele-uä, Tearing the thatch over Ele-ao. The freshet makes home for the water-fowl, Flooding the thickets at Kehau, The wide-spread waters of Kula-manu. O Pele, fold back the curtains of heaven; Thou Woman, consumer of Puna woods, Swift thy foray in Hopoe's fields: The land of contending rains is wiped out, And the lands that border Keäau. Up springs the steam from her caldron, A white cloudy mountain of smoke: She's consuming the bowlders of Long-rock, The treacherous paths of Lau-ahea. A flash of lightning rends the sky! O Ku-kuena, 'tis for you to dwell In the flaming Eastern Gate of the Sun. The plateau of Uwé-kahuna Breathes the reek of burning woods; There's pelting of heads with falling stones And loud the clang of the smitten plain, Confused with the groan of the earthquake. 2Yet this cools not the rock-eater's rage: The Goddess grinds her teeth in the Pit. Lo, tilted rock-plates melt like snow-- Black faces that shine like a mirror-- Sharp edges that bite the foot of a man, The traveler's dread in the glare of the sun. [492] The fire-flood swells in the upland-- A robber-flood--it dries up the streams. Here's cliff for god's jumping, when wild their sport; Deep the basin below, and boiling hot. The Goddess gnashes her teeth and the reek Of her breath flies to the farthest shore. Thine was the fault, O Goddess, thine, a Jealous passion at all times and places-- The snap and spring of a surly dog. Let your gnashing range to its limit, Till it reaches the fringe of your skirt, Your hot paü at Wai-welawela. Trample down, O Ku, these ominous clouds; Let them sag and fall at Ulu-nui. They flatten, they break; look, they spread. White loom, now, the clouds of Ulu-lani; Fierce blazes the Sun, and Thunder Unrolls his black curtains on high. Then bellows his voice from the cloud-- The ominous cloud that swallows the trees. From the crest of Moku-aweö Pele pours out her body, her self-- A turmoil of rain and of sea-fowl. Now boils the lake of the Goddess: In Ka-ú an oasis-park remains; Her smoke covers Puna with night. What a robbery this, to crush the flowers! My bodily self, my lehuas, gone! My precious lehuas, clean down to Puna! And Puna--the land is trenched and seared! The smoke that o'erhangs it, that I can see. 3High surf in the Pit, turmoiling the sky-- The god who ate Puna's Lehuas, She 'twas laid waste green-robed Hawaii. The heavens--let them rend, Hiiaka! Plunge you in the wild tossing sea; And you, who delight in the calm sea; Hiiaka, thou thatcher of towns, Hiiaka, soul of the flame-bud; Hiiaka, emblemed in ti-bud; Hiiaka, who dwells on the headland; Hiiaka, who parts heaven's curtains; Hiiaka--of Pele's own heart! These tears well from eyes hot with weeping, The eyes of this scion, this herald: I proclaim that he's outcast and exiled. 'Tis I, Paoä announce this: He speaks what is ment for your ear! ‹Previous chapterPele and Hiiaka 213Next chapterPele and Hiiaka 215›Similar passagesBy tradition and source labelFind similarCompare selectedCompare with similarAsk Deep ThoughtSelect passages to search for parallels.Tap any verse to select it, then compare selected passages or ask Deep Thought. Public domain in the United States via Project Gutenberg