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Kumu-Honua

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In Hawaiian Religion, Kumu-Honua ("first on Earth") is the first man.

He was created from muddy water in the fashion of steam ascending upwards and married to Lalo-Honua; the couple was given a garden by Kāne and were forbidden from eating a particular fruit.

This story may be in whole or in part Christianized.

Sources

  1. Frederick B. Wichman (2003). N_ Pua Aliì O Kauaì: Ruling Chiefs of Kauaì.
  2. There are other persons in Hawaiian mythology that can be considered to be the first man; see also Kahiko and Welaahilaninui.
  3. Abraham Fornander; Thomas Thrum (1920). Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore. Bishop Museum Press. p. 335.
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