"KU" - Hawaiian God

In Hawaiian mythology, Po was at the beginning a vast, dark, empty land where only the spirit of Keawe dwelled, his single light holding the energy of creation. Keawe brought order by opening his great calabash, flinging its lid into the air to become the blue sky, and drawing from it the orange disk that became the sun. He then manifested as Na Wahine, a female divinity considered his daughter, and as Kane, his son and the male generative force of creation. Hina, identified with Na Wahine, and Kane mated spiritually and produced a royal family—Ku, Lono, Kanaloa, along with Kane—who became the four major Hawaiian gods. In Hawaiian legend, Ku and Hina are invoked as great ancestral gods of heaven and earth with spiritual control over the fruitfulness of the earth and the generations of mankind, and many subordinate gods bear suffixes added to Ku’s name.

Papaikou, Hawaii · United States