Polynesian mythology
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Polynesian mythology encompasses the oral traditions of the people of Polynesia together with those of the scattered cultures known as the Polynesian outliers. Polynesians speak languages that descend
Tiki Makiʻi Tauʻa Pepe (foreground) and Tiki Manuiotaa (background) from the meʻae Iʻipona on Hiva Oa in the Marquesas Islands
A sacred god figure wrapping for the war god 'Oro, made of woven dried coconut fibre (sennit), which would have protected a Polynesian god effigy (to'o) made of wood
Hawaiian religion
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The Hawaiian religion comprises the Indigenous religious beliefs and practices of Native Hawaiians, also known as the kapu system. Hawaiian religion was based partly on the tapu system common in Polyn
Polynesian mythology
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A depiction of a royal heiau (HawaiiaThe n temple) at Kealakekua Bay, c. 1816
Kailua-Kona, Island of Hawaii
Kū, Hawaiian God of war
King Kamehameha II