Tales from Akkadia - The Leiua blossom

Posted on 26 Feb 2019 @ 7:20am by Commander Allyndra illm Warraquim

619 words; about a 3 minute read

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Ohi'a and Lehua loved each other from the moment they first saw each other at a dance. Ohi'a was a tall strong man with a handsome face and lithe form. He was was an artist of surpassing talent. Lehua was gentle and sweet and as fragile as a flower. Her beauty was the talk of the village.

When Lehua saw the handsome, bold Ohi'a speaking with the Mother of the House she blushed crimson, unable to take her eyes from the young man. At the same moment, Ohi'a glanced up from his conversation and his mouth dropped open at the sight of the beautiful maiden. He was not even aware that he had stopped speaking right in the middle of his sentence, so overwhelmed was he by the sight of the fair maiden from him.

The Mother of the House nudged the young man, recalling him to his duties as a guest. Ohi'a stuttered and stammered apologies, trying to continue his conversation while keeping one eye on the fair Lehua. Lehua's Mother was amused by the young man's obvious infatuation with the daughter of her house. She quite liked the young man, and so she offered to introduce Ohi'a to her daughter. The young man almost fell over in his haste as they walked across the hall to where Lehua stood with her friends.

From that moment, there was no other woman for Ohi'a but Lehua. He had eyes only for her, and courted her with a passion and zeal that swiftly won her heart. Her mother arranged gladly into the keeping of the strong young man, and the young couple lived quite happily for several months.

Then one day the a goddess was walking in the forest near where handsome Ohi'a was working and spied the young man at work. The goddess was smitten by him, and went at once to engage him in conversation. Ohi'a spoke politely to the beautiful woman, but did not respond to her advances, which infuriated the goddess. She was determined to have this young man for herself, but before she could renew her efforts, Lehua came to the place her young husband was working to bring him his midday meal.

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 the now angered goddess to stare in jealous rage at the young couple. Dropping her human disguise, the goddess 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 the goddess 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. The goddess ignored the girl, taking herself up to the cool heights, her anger satisfied. But the gods saw what the goddess had done to the innocent lovers and were angry. 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'a tree, so that she and her beloved husband would never more be apart.

From that day to this, the Ohi'a tree has blossomed with the beautiful red Lehua flowers. While the flowers remain on the tree, the weather remains sunny and fair. 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.

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