Hawaiian Gods and Goddesses

Lanka

credited for hula dance Fertility and reproduction goddess Wife of loon and goddess of love and beauty

Kane

Chief of Hawaiian trinity which was with lono and ku God of wild foods and plants like trees God of forests and jungles with all their gifts like wood,medicinal plants, and leaves

Loon

God of cultivated agrarian foods especially Kumasi or sweet potato Supplied fertile soil to create humans brother mu sculpted bodies and brother Kane breathed life into them

Milu

Goddess who ruled over the subterranean land of the dead which shared her name

Pele

Hawaiian fire and volcano goddess as dangerous and the uncontrollable as the elements she ruled over She is blamed for every eruption to this day "peles revenge"

Haumea

Hawaiian mother goddess who was prayed to by midwives attending at the birth of children

Kamoho

Hawaiian shark god who was the chief of many lesser shark deities in the Hawaiian pantheon Brother of the fire goddess pele and was considered the guardian god of the Hawaiian islands

Maui

Sort of a Polynesian Hercules in some respects, this mighty demigod is also a trickster deity and a sun god

Ku

The Hawaiian god of war Wields a fiery mace that burns with the souls of the gods, demons, and mortals he has personally slain in combat

Kamapua'a

Warlike god of wild boars and husband of fire goddess Pele Wen enraged combination of wolverine and hulk