A Part of Hawaiian Mythology

One of the gods in Hawaiian mythology is called Kane. The natives praised him as an ancestor of chiefs and commoners; he was also believed to be the procreation god. There are four different eras associated with the stories of Kane. The first era says that Kane was not in heaven or earth, instead he was alone in darkness. Light is made in the second era and Kane along with the help of Lono and Ku create the earth and the things that are found in it. Man and woman are made in the third era and so is Kumu-honua and Lalo-honua which means "Earth beginning" and "Earth below". In the fourth and last era Kane who has been residing on Earth as a normal man decides to go up to heaven and live like a man. Everyone who breaks his laws could face the possibility of death.

The legend of how the earth was created says that all three gods which are Kane, Lono, and Ku come out of the darkness and make three different heavens to live in, one for each of them. After they made their heavens, legend says that they made earth so that they could rest their feet on it and they named it "The great earth of Kane". Kane wanted to make something that would occupy the empty space that was between heaven and earth so he created the sun, moon, and the stars. It was a practice of priests to purify things with salt water so Kane made the water of the ocean salty. They believe Kane created man using clay from the north, south, east, and west parts of the earth. When he finished forming the image in his likeliness he and Ku spit into the model's nostrils while Lono spit into the mouth and then it became living. Because he was created from red dirt they named him Keliikuhonua and gave him a garden to live in named Kalanaihauola. Paliuli later made him a wife from the right side of his body and named her KeolaKuhonua. Later on the wife comes into contact with a white beaked seabird that gets her to eat Kane's sacred apples. After she eats the apples, she goes crazy and turns into a seabird herself. The seabird carries both husband and wife away deep into the jungle. As he carries them away the trees move in order to make a trail, but after they pass the trees go back to their original spot and there is no sign left of the trail that once was. This is supposed to be how the name of "Hidden land of Kane" came about.