ORIGIN: Polynesian [Hawaii]
TYPE: Creator God
INFORMATION: An androgynous though apparently male principle or monad, he lived once in the dark empty abyss of Po. There, Keawe transformed primordial chaos into an orderly cosmos. He fashioned the sky from the lid of his calabash (a water carrying gourd) and the sun from an orange disc formerly kept inside the calabash.
Keawe's first son was Kane, the god of light, and his daughter was Na Wahine, both created through his own powers of conception. He subsequently entered into an incestuous relationship with Na Wahine to father the chief pantheon of Hawaiian gods and goddesses, including most notably Ku, Lono and Kanaloa, who became known, collectively as the tripartite god.