Lono

One of the four great Hawaiian gods; god of agriculture, rain and the Makahiki festival.

Domains

• agriculture
• rain fertility

Powers

• Bring the fertilizing winter rains and harvests

Epithets

• Lono-i-ka-makahiki latin · Lono-i-ka-makahikiLono of the Makahiki (the harvest festival season)Beckwith, Martha. Hawaiian Mythology. Yale University Press, 1940, ch. 'Lono'. (ethnography); Malo, David. Hawaiian Antiquities (Moolelo Hawaii). Bishop Museum, 1903, on the Makahiki of Lono. (chronicle)
• Lono-makua latin · Lono-makuaLono the parent / elder Lono (keeper of the fire-sticks)Beckwith, Martha. Hawaiian Mythology. Yale University Press, 1940. (ethnography)
• Lono-nui-akea latin · Lono-nui-akeaGreat wide-spread LonoBeckwith, Martha. Hawaiian Mythology. Yale University Press, 1940, ch. 'Lono'. (ethnography)

Relations

• equated with: RongoReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Rongo), cognate across the island groups.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• equated with: Ro'oReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Rongo), cognate across the island groups.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• equated with: RongoReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Rongo), cognate across the island groups.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• equated with: RongoReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Rongo), cognate across the island groups.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• equated with: RongoReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Rongo), cognate across the island groups.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• equated with: OnoReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Rongo), cognate across the island groups.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)

Sources

• existence: Beckwith, Hawaiian Mythology (1940) (primary)