Every myth carries a truth older than the civilization that told it.
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Batara Guru (Bhatara Guru), the supreme god of Javanese and Balinese mythology — the king of the gods and the Javanese form of the Hindu Shiva, lord of
Poli’ahu (Poliahu), the snow-goddess of Hawaii — the beautiful white-robed goddess of the snow-capped summit of Mauna Kea, the great rival of the
The Nightmarchers (Hukai’po), the ghostly processions of ancient Hawaiian warriors and chiefs that march by night with torch and drum along the old sacred
Nanaue, the were-shark of Hawaiian legend — a man born with a shark’s mouth upon his back, son of the shark-king Kamohoali’i, who could change into a
The Menehune, the legendary little people of Hawaii — a race of small, industrious, secretive folk who dwelt in the forests, master builders who raised
Laka, the Hawaiian goddess of the hula and the wild forest growth — the patroness of the sacred dance, worshipped on the kuahu altar and embodied in the
Kū’ula (Kuula), the god of fishermen and the fishing-grounds in Hawaii — a beneficent form of the great god Ku who provided the fish and the fishponds,
Kapo (Kapo’ulakina’u), the powerful, ambivalent Hawaiian goddess of fertility, sorcery, and the hula — sister of Pele, linked with Laka, famous for the
The ’Aumakua, the deified ancestral guardian-spirits of Hawaii — the spirits of departed family ancestors who took the form of a shark, owl, lizard, or
Kamapua’a (Kamapuaa), the hog-god and shapeshifting trickster-demigod of Hawaii — a wild being who took the form of a man, a giant black pig, a fish, or
