One Hawaiian creation myth...
is embodied in the Kumulipo, an epic chant...
linking the aliʻi - Hawaiian royalty - to the gods.
The Kumulipo is divided into two sections:
night (pō) and day (ao)...
with the former (night) corresponding to divinity...
and the latter (day) corresponding to humankind.
After the birth of Laʻilaʻi (the woman) and Kiʻi (the man)...
the man succeeds at seducing and reproducing with the woman before the god Kāne has a chance...
thereby making the divine lineage of the gods younger than...
and thus subservient [onderdanig] to the lineage of man.
This, in turn, illustrates the transition of mankind...
from being symbols for the gods (the literal meaning of kiʻi)...
into the keeper of these symbols...
in the form of idols and the like.
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The Kumulipo was recited during the time of Makahiki...
to honor the god of fertility, Lono.
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