Mother goddess. [Hawaiian.] She is the daughter of PAPATUANUKU, the primordial earth mother, and is revered by many people of Polynesia and by the Maori of New Zealand. Her more notable children include PELE, the volcano goddess of Hawaii, and HI’AIKA, the goddess of the dance.
Tag: Hawaii
Oceania, Polynesia, and Hawaii
by Daphne Elliott
Writers often use the word Oceania to cover that vast geographic area of t he Pacific Ocean which includes The Philippines and Indonesia in the west, the Hawaiian Islands in the north, Easter Island to the East, and Australia and New Zealand to the South, with all the islands, archipelagos and land masses in between.
Aumakua
by Dr Anthony E. Smart
Means “Ghost of your ancestors”. Huna, the religion of early Hawaii, taught that each person had two souls.
When one died the earthly soul (unihi-pili) remained earth-bound and descended to the the underworld. The aumakua (higher soul) ascended to the heavens to rejoin the deceased ancestors. This Hawaiian god guides the souls of the deceased on their journey to the afterworld.
Witch's Well 