t depth of Darkness or Night
(_Po_).[42]

[36] J. Remy, _op. cit._ p. xxxix; E. Tregear, _Maori-Polynesian
Comparative Dictionary_, p. 30, _s.v._ "Atua."

[37] J. Remy, _op. cit._ p. xxxix; J. J. Jarves, _op. cit._ p.
40; H. T. Cheever, _Life in the Sandwich Islands_ (London,
1851), p. 11; A. Bastian, _Die heilige Sage der Polynesier_
(Leipzig, 1881), p. 131; _id._, _Inselgruppen in Oceanien_
(Berlin, 1883), p. 225; A. Marcuse, _Die Hawaiischen Inseln_,
pp. 97 _sq._

[38] E. Tregear, _op. cit._ 425, 461, 464, 540, _s.vv._ "Rongo,"
"Tane," "Tangaroa," "Tu."

[39] E. Tregear, _op. cit._ p. 425, _s.v._ "Rongo."

[40] E. Tregear, _op. cit._ pp. 461, 540, _s.vv._ "Tane," "Tu."

[41] E. Tregear, _op. cit._ p. 540, _s.v._ "Tu."

[42] E. Tregear, _op. cit._ p. 464, _s.v._ "Tangaroa." According
to another account, the evil spirit was not Kanaloa, but Ku;
Kanaloa was a younger brother of Kane, and helped him in his
beneficent labours. See A. Marcuse, _Die Hawaiischen Inseln_,
pp. 97 _sq._ This latter version agrees with the view of Kane
and Kanaloa as divine twins. See below, pp. 394 _sq._

A fuller account of these momentous transactions presents a close,
perhaps a suspicious, resemblance to the Biblical narrative of the same
events. It runs as follows:

"According to ancient Hawaiian traditions, there existed in the chaos
three mighty gods, Kane, Ku, and Lono. By their common action light was
brought into the chaos. Then the gods created three heavenly spheres, in
which they dwelt, and last of all the earth, sun, moon, and stars. Out
of their spittle they thereupon created a host of angels, who had to
render service to the three original deities. Last of all came the
creation of man. His body was fashioned out of red earth, and his head
out of white clay, and Kane, the highest of the gods, breathed into this
Hawaiian Adam the breath of life. Out of one of his ribs the Hawaiian
Eve was created. The newly formed pair, by name Kumuhonua and
Keolakuhonua, were placed in a beautiful paradise called Paliuli, which
was watered by the three rivers of life, and planted with many fine
trees, among them the sacred bread-fruit tree. The mightiest of the
angels, Kanaloa, the Hawaiian Lucifer, desired that the newly created
human pair should worship him, which was forbidden by God the Father,
Kane. After vain attempts to create a new man devoted to himself