Laka
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In Hawaiian mythology, Laka is the name of two different popular heroes from Polynesian mythology..
Red lehua blossom (Metrosideros polymorpha).
Hula dancers in a Luau in Lāhainā, in traditional kī leaf skirts
Rātā (Māori mythology)
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In Māori mythology, accounts vary somewhat as to the ancestry of Rātā. Usually he is a grandson of Tāwhaki and son of Wahieroa. Wahieroa is treacherously killed by Matuku-tangotango, an ogre. Rātā set
Laka
…chief of the forest elves, Haelefeke, and compels him to help him build a great canoe and pilot it to Fiji. En route, they are tested by various demons. Rātā (Māori mythology) Rata (Tahitian mythology…
Rātā gave the flowers of the rātā tree their colour