The Myth of Creation

• After Ages of time, somthing enthused in the egg, burst it's shell, and rised to the surface. It was the supreme god, Tangaroa. Tangaroa was frightened to find himself alone. He took the remains of his shell and created the world out of it. He created the secondary gods, men and women.


• In the time people were created, the Polynesians said, that gods have lived in Pulotu or Hawaiki, mysterious islands in the west. Sometimes they went to live in the sky or under the island. some hawaiians believed the homes of some of the gods and godesses was the volcano called Kirauea.