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Paka'a
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Oceania
God of wind. Credited with the invention of the sail, Paka'a inherited his authority over the winds and storms from his grandmother Loa. He was one of the lesser Hawaiian gods. In order not to omit any one of the host of lesser deities formed out of the spittle of Kane when he was shaping the earth, it was customary to begin a prayer thus: ‘Invoke we now the 40,000 gods, the 400,000 gods, the 4,000 gods. …’
From: Paka'a in A Dictionary of World Mythology »
Subjects: Religion
