The Lesser Gods
Pele: Goddess of the volcanoes, as well as fire, lightning and wind.
Hina: Goddess of Moon. Laka: Goddess of the hula. Kuula: God of fishermen. Papa: Fertility goddess. Earth mother. Poliahu: One of the four goddesses of snow. The rival of Pele. Ha'iaka: Sister of the goddess Pele. Haumea: She was daughter to Papa (a fertility goddess) and mother to Pele (female-volcanoes) and Hi'aika (dance-specifically the hula). Besides teaching human women how to give birth properly she was considered a very wise woman, and very brave. She rescued her husband from kidnappers and to escapes them leaps (with her husband) into a ulu tree (breadfruit). When the kidnappers try to capture them by cutting into the tree with their machetes the splinters of wood and poisonous sap from the tree kill the axemen. To appease Haumea they carve the tree into a shape of goddess whom Haumea calls Kamehaikana. Another set of stories involve her magic stick (wand) made from an ulu tree. The wand could create fruit on the tree, or fish. One day she was startled by one of her daughters and as she turns around to rebuke her daughter; Haumea twisted her wrist so that the fish she was invoking were scattered into the surrounding waters so that is why Hawaii has so many fish in its waters. Kamohoalii: Keeper of the water of life. Pele's elder brother, Kamohoalii, also known as Kalahiki, enjoyed lounging in the deep waters around Maui. To amuse himself, he found the fleets of fishing canoes when they were out of sight of land and hopelessly lost. Kamohoalii would then swim in front of the lead boat and shake his tail. Hi'iaka: A spirit of fertility and sorcery, as well as a spirit of dance. Kane'hekili: Spirit of thunder. Haulili: God of speech lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Pele's Subjects: Hiiaka-wawahi-lani: The heaven-dwelling cloud-holder. Makoie-nawahi-waa: The fire-eyed canoe-breaker. Hiiaka-noho-lani: The heaven-dwelling cloud-holder. Hiiaka-kaalawa-maka: The quick-glancing cloud-holder Komo-hoalii: Or King Moho, the king of vapor and steam Kapohoikahiola: God of explosions Keuakepo: God of the night rain, or rain of fire. Kane-kahili: The husband of thunder, or thungering god. (A hunchback) Keoahi-kamakaua: The fire-thrusting child of war (A hunchback) lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Laamaomao: God the of the winds, the Hawaiian Aeolus, whose home was on Molokai. Haniakuluiau: A goddess if rain Kuula: A god of fishermen for all islands – temples were erected to him on the shores of favorite fishing grounds, and the first fish of every catch was his due. Hina: Wife of Kuula (appealed to when her husband with held his favors) Laepua and Kaneapua: Gods of fishermen on Lanai Hinahele and her daughter Aiaikuula: Goddess of fishermen on Hawaii Ukanipo: The great shark god of Hawaii Moaalii: The principal shark god of Oahu and Molokai Lanoakiki: The great eel-god of all the group |
Kapua: The divine tricksters or mischief-makers of Hawaii.
Ki'i: Hawaiian creator god or first created man. Kupua: Generic term for the demigods of Hawaii, as opposed to the Akua,the gods proper. Kapo, Tapo: A daughter of Na' wahine and Kane, and married to Kanaloa. As such, she becomes the feminine aspect of Kanaloa. Kapo is also one of Pele's seven sisters, and one of the goddesses of the Hula. Wakea: Wakea is the father of the earth, and the prevailing deity of the gods and goddesses of nature. Honua: Honua is the being that is the earth -- the spirit that is the planet. Honua's daughter is the goddess of the volcano -- Pele. Na' wahine, Uliuli, Uli: Io manifested as Keawe and became his heavenly daughter Na' wahine, the Goddess Uliuli, the wife of Kane. Uli is the highest manifestation of universal feminine energy, the Goddess of Serenity. Uli, Keawe's first daughter, is also worshiped as Malama, the goddess of the moon. Uli as Uli- nana-pono was the one who saw all things the individual did that were right. As Uli-nana-hewa, she also saw all the things that an individual did that were wrong. Together Eli (Kane) and Uli (Na' wahine) created Kanaloa, Ku, and Lono, their first three sons. They also had three daughters: Tapo, Hina, and Laka, who married the Kanaloa, Ku and Lono. Ke'o'ahi'kama'kaua: Spirit of lava fountains Lonomakua: Keeper of the sacred fire sticks Kuumana: the Rain God of Kau. Kaonohiokala: (the eyeball of the sun) A celestial god, with an abode somewhere in the heavens, and to whose presence the departed spirits of chiefs were conducted. Manua: Referred to in some legends as the supreme sovereign of Po. With him abide the spirits of distinguished chiefs and priests, who wander among beautiful streams and groves of kou trees, and subsist upon lizards and butterflies. Minor Celestial Deities Milu: The successor of Akea, or who, according to another belief, accompanied Akea to Po, and became the perpetual ruler of a kingdom on its western confines. Akea: The first Hawaiian king, who, after life, founded the island kingdom of Kapapahaunaumoku, in the realms of Po, or death. Kuahaiio: The messenger who conducted the souls of distinguished chiefs to Kaonohiokaqla. Olopue: A god of Maui, who bore the spirits of noted chiefs to the celestial paradise. Kamehameha sought to secure possession of a very sacred image of this god, inherited by Kahekili, moi of Maui. Kolemoku: The deified chief who first learned the use of herbs and the art of healing from the gods. He was a patron of the kahunas. Disciples were Olonapuha and Makanuiailone. Kukaoo: God of the husbandman Lakakane: God of the hula nad similar sports Mokualii: God of the canoe-makers Hai: God of kapa making Ulaulakeahi: God of distillation Lie: A goddess of the mountains who braided leis. Kiha: A goddess of Maui held in great reverence Apukohai and Uhumakaikai: Evil shark or fish-gods of Kauai Note: There were a number of shark and lizard gods. They were powerful and malignant, and greatly feared by the classes who frequented the sea. Heiaus were erected to them on promontories overlooking the ocean, and the offerings to them of fish and fruits were always liberal. They assumed the forms of giant sharks and lizards, and not unfrequently lashed the waters into fury and destroyed canoes. Akua-ula: The god of inspiration |