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Então, um dia, a deusa Pelé estava andando na floresta perto da casa do belo Ohi'a e espiou o jovem trabalhando. Pelé se apaixonou por ele e foi imediatamente conversar com ele. Ohi'a falou educadamente com a bela mulher, mas não respondeu aos seus avanços, o que enfureceu Pelé.
When he saw his lovely wife, Ohi'a's face lit up with love. He dropped everything at once and went to her side, leaving a fuming Pele to stare in jealous rage at the young couple.
Dropping her human disguise, the goddess transformed into a raging column of fire and struck Ohi'a down, transforming him into a twisted ugly tree in revenge for spurning her advances.
Lehua fell to her knees beside the twisted tree that had once been her husband. Tears streaming down her lovely face, she begged Pele to turn him back into a man or else turn her into a tree, as she could not bear to be separated from her beloved.
As Lehua lay weeping in despair, the gods reached down and transformed the girl into a beautiful red flower, which they placed upon the twisted Ohi' tree, so that she and her beloved husband would never more be apart.
But when a flower is plucked from the tree, then heavy rain falls upon the land like tears, for Lehua still cannot bear to be separated from her beloved husband Ohi'a.