Ku: The god of war and blood. The warriors of all the islands prayed to him, but he only answered the select; the few that produced the best sacrifices before him. The other gods demanded little in the way of a sacrifice: seashells, flowers, coconuts, bird's eggs, pearls and fish.
Kanaloa: God Of The Ocean & Underworld
According to legend, Kanaloa was once a powerful chief who ruled over the island of Kaua'i. However, he was overthrown by his own brother and banished to the underworld. There, he became the lord of the dead and the ruler of all the oceans.
Kaulu is a trickster god and is quite destructive and at times violent, and is known for being one of the most powerful beings in their mythology. In fact, Kaulu was even powerful enough to kill several other deities of the Hawaiian pantheon. Kaulu is immortal and does not age.
Kāne: The God of Creation and the Sky
He created Kanaloa to act as his opposite - while Kāne represents life and light, Kanaloa represents dark and darkness. He created Lono to take care of the land and its fertility.
Hi'iaka was a goddess of healing. Lonopūhā was a god of healing, particularly of chronic diseases. Koleamoku was a man who was taught medicinal arts by the gods and who was deified as a god of healing after death.
While there are numerous akua (gods) in the Hawaiian Pantheon, there are four major gods Kū, Kanaloa, Kāne, Lono.
The Hawaiian words lāʻau and lapaʻau mean vegetation and treat, heal, or cure respectively. This practice involves using native plants, herbs and spirituality to treat ailments and injuries. Traditionally, lāʻau lapaʻau is practiced by Native Hawaiian healers known as Kahuna lāʻau lapaʻau.
Kanaloa is also considered to be the god of the Underworld and a teacher of magic.
Thanatos, in ancient Greek religion and mythology, the personification of death. Thanatos was the son of Nyx, the goddess of night, and the brother of Hypnos, the god of sleep. He appeared to humans to carry them off to the underworld when the time allotted to them by the Fates had expired.
Kane. The chief god of the Hawaiian pantheon, Kane was the creator and the god of light. There are several titles beginning with the name Kane, but they all refer to the creator god. He's called Tane in Tahiti, New Zealand and southeastern Polynesia.
Kāne - highest of the four major Hawaiian deities, The chief of the Hawaiian trinity, which also consists of his brothers Lono and Kū. In contrast to Lono being the deity of cultivated foods, Kane was the god of wild foods and plants like trees, etc.
Papa or Papahanaumoku and Wakea
She married the god of sky Wakea. Together they created the islands of Hawaii as well as “The Heavenly one who made the stars” Ho'ohokukalani.
Laka (Goddess of Beauty, Love, Fertility)
The goddess of beauty, love, fertility and reproduction Laka is best known for creating the beautiful Hawaiian hula dance.
In Hawaiian mythology, Mahina is a lunar deity, mother of Hemā. Mahina is also the word for the "Moon" in Hawaiian language. It is likely that she is the same as the goddess Hina or Lona.
These Hawaiian warriors were called Koa. Koa warriors were merciless in hand battle. Koa warriors were capable of slaughter and their weapons were designed to inflict bodily harm.
Kanaloa is one of the major gods in Hawaiian tradition. Though he doesn't feature as prominently in Hawaiian mythology as other gods, he's the god of the sea and long-distance sailing voyages. In other Polynesian cultures, he is also referred to as the god of the sea, though he has different names.
Ker. In Greek mythology, a goddess of death, especially of violent death in battle. In Hesiod she is the daughter of Nyx (night), and sister of Moros (the doom of death), Hypnos (sleep), and Dreams.
He is also known as the Pale Horseman whose name is Thanatos, the same as that of the ancient Greek personification of death, and the only one of the horsemen to be named.
Hel, in Norse mythology, originally the name of the world of the dead; it later came to mean the goddess of death. Hel was one of the children of the trickster god Loki, and her kingdom was said to lie downward and northward.
Interestingly enough, the ancient Polynesians blended these two forms of storytelling to include real people who attained god-like powers with the fallibility of the human condition – creating what today we call demi-gods and goddesses. The most famous and well known of these is the demigod Maui.
Kanaloa is a god symbolized by the squid or by the octopus, and is typically associated with Kāne in Hawaiian mythology. It is also the name of an extinct volcano in Hawaiʻi. Kāne and Kanaloa are portrayed as complementary powers.
In the Hawaiian religion, Pele is the goddess of volcanoes, fire, and lightning. She is believed to have created the Hawaiian islands, and is considered to be a sacred, primordial force.
Unclean, evil spirit, ʻuhane ʻino (Biblical); nukumaneʻo, aumiha. Disembodied spirit, ʻula lele. Spirit of dead, kino wailua, ʻunihipili, ʻuhinipili.
'Aumakua were invisible to the living, but able to possess or inhabit many visible forms, animate or inanimate. A rock or a small carved image set up in a family shrine within the home might serve as a rest- ing place for 'aumakua.
The ancient Hawaiian culture and spirituality revolve around the concept of mana, (Prana) the life force energy that flows through all living things. The islands are believed to be infused with an abundance of mana, creating a sacred space where healing and transformation can occur.