The Legend of Xaka Kikū
This is the legend of Xaka Kikū, the Great King who created the heavens and all things in the Ki'inori world.
In the beginning, there was only Xaka Kikū, alone in the Great Nothing. His frustration from boredom and loneliness grew and grew, causing him to develop a severe headache. His headache then grew and grew, until he yelled out in pain with such ferocity that his head split open, spilling a bright white light into the Great Nothing. The bright white light pooled and became a ball, which Xaka Kikū called Ki'inoro.
Overcome with relief, and awed by the intensity of Ki'inoro, Xaka Kikū shed a single tear of joy, forming the oceans. The heat from Ki'inoro caused the closest ocean to boil, creating the clouds and the rains, and leaving behind salt that became the rocks and the earth. These too, became super heated, forming a huge volcano in the middle of the world.
Thus the ocean, land and weather were created.
While the salt formed the rocks and the earth, it also stopped the light of Ki'inoro from filling all of the Great Nothing; this created a space for darkness to appear. The edges of this darkness were touched by the light from Ki'inoro that made it through the oceans, spinning with the darkness to create Ūh'inoro.
Ūh'inoro was the evil twin of Ki'inoro and ruled the darkness using the light of his brother. He was a pale blue ball, with yellow eyes that sparkled and jagged teeth that gleamed. He hated that his brother controlled his light, and challenged him to a fight. Ki'inoro, not trusting Ūh'inoro to give a fair fight refused to engage him, so Ūh'inoro attacked the earth that was forming, biting it hard hoping to goad Ki'inoro into defending it.
Seeing this, Xaka Kikū pulled the earth away from Uh'inoro, but his tooth had caught on the volcano, tearing out when he refused to let go. He placed the earth in the centre of the Great Nothing, as far away from both Ki'inoro and Uh'inoro for safe keeping.
Still seeking victory, but wary of losing another tooth (for which he blamed Ki'inoro who made the volcano) Ūh'inoro moved the oceans to try and get closer to Ki'inoro and steal his light. Ki'inoro however, was wise to Ūh'inoro's plans, and moved further away, always keeping him on the other side of the earth and chasing away the darkness he left behind, locking them into an eternal chase across the skies. Ūh'inoro could only steal tiny pieces of the light that shone through the water, which he did not want, and left them to float in the Great Nothing.
Thus day (Ki'i) and night(Ūh'i) and the heavens were created.
Xaka Kikū, seeing how this chase caused the heat and oceans to come and go across his land, watched as the earth closest to the oceans never really dried out; after many laps around the earth, a little green shoot began to break through the mud, drinking in the nutrients of the soil and stretching up towards the skies. Xaka Kikū looked on in amazement as the little shoot grew into the deity Halūlopati.
Halūlopati was the most beautiful being Xaka Kikū had ever seen; they were masculine beauty yet feminine charm; curvy yet slender; they were everything they needed to be to bring life into the world, which is exactly what they did. Reaching a hand down to the barren wastes of Ūh'inoro's tooth, Halūlopati imbued the earth with life, growing lush green grasses, tall trees filled with a rainbow of birds and rivers filled with all kinds of fish.
Seeing the look of longing in the eyes of the creatures of the night that Ūh'inoro had created, Halūlopati, benevolent being that they are, created a habitat for those creatures too; they grew as tall as the trees, and bigger still, until only the mountains could look down upon them. Once up there, they saw the whole world around them, and Ki'inoro being chased by Ūh'inoro, and Xaka Kikū beaming with pride, watched his perfect child as they laid down around the edge of the world, forming the jungle that would house the creatures of the night.
Thus, the world was created.
Wanting to protect the world Halūlopati gave life to, and hoping to create another child like them, Xaka Kikū made a clearing in the Jungle, letting in the light of Ki'inoro. Into that clearing he placed a rock of cooled lava from the volcano, and pressed it into the earth, causing water to well up and spill into a perfectly clear stream. Then he pushed some clouds together, hoping that the lightning would strike the rock and bring it to life; however the lightning was so powerful that it split the rock in two. Each half then crumbled into a fine powder, either side of the stream, growing wet from the water.
and nothing happened.
Crestfallen, Xaka Kikū began to turn away, until as Ki'inoro passed over the clearing, two small green shoots could be seen growing. They grew much faster than the one that made Halūlopati, but did not grow as big. They each grew leaves, and then a bud appeared at the top. These buds each opened, the five sepals replaced with five petals of the brightest yellow.
Contained in each flower, was at first glance, a small version of Halūlopati; however when Xaka Kikū looked more closely, he saw that in one flower, the person was masculine, charming and slender, and in the other, the person was curvy, feminine and beautiful. Both looked like Halūlopati, yet not like each other. Xaka Kikū, though he had hoped to have another child like Halūlopati, accepted these gifts from his child, for they were surely theirs, and embraced them, embuing them with the knowledge to care for his child, their parent as they aged.
Thus the Ki'inori were created.
In the beginning, there was only Xaka Kikū, alone in the Great Nothing. His frustration from boredom and loneliness grew and grew, causing him to develop a severe headache. His headache then grew and grew, until he yelled out in pain with such ferocity that his head split open, spilling a bright white light into the Great Nothing. The bright white light pooled and became a ball, which Xaka Kikū called Ki'inoro.
Overcome with relief, and awed by the intensity of Ki'inoro, Xaka Kikū shed a single tear of joy, forming the oceans. The heat from Ki'inoro caused the closest ocean to boil, creating the clouds and the rains, and leaving behind salt that became the rocks and the earth. These too, became super heated, forming a huge volcano in the middle of the world.
Thus the ocean, land and weather were created.
While the salt formed the rocks and the earth, it also stopped the light of Ki'inoro from filling all of the Great Nothing; this created a space for darkness to appear. The edges of this darkness were touched by the light from Ki'inoro that made it through the oceans, spinning with the darkness to create Ūh'inoro.
Ūh'inoro was the evil twin of Ki'inoro and ruled the darkness using the light of his brother. He was a pale blue ball, with yellow eyes that sparkled and jagged teeth that gleamed. He hated that his brother controlled his light, and challenged him to a fight. Ki'inoro, not trusting Ūh'inoro to give a fair fight refused to engage him, so Ūh'inoro attacked the earth that was forming, biting it hard hoping to goad Ki'inoro into defending it.
Seeing this, Xaka Kikū pulled the earth away from Uh'inoro, but his tooth had caught on the volcano, tearing out when he refused to let go. He placed the earth in the centre of the Great Nothing, as far away from both Ki'inoro and Uh'inoro for safe keeping.
Still seeking victory, but wary of losing another tooth (for which he blamed Ki'inoro who made the volcano) Ūh'inoro moved the oceans to try and get closer to Ki'inoro and steal his light. Ki'inoro however, was wise to Ūh'inoro's plans, and moved further away, always keeping him on the other side of the earth and chasing away the darkness he left behind, locking them into an eternal chase across the skies. Ūh'inoro could only steal tiny pieces of the light that shone through the water, which he did not want, and left them to float in the Great Nothing.
Thus day (Ki'i) and night(Ūh'i) and the heavens were created.
Xaka Kikū, seeing how this chase caused the heat and oceans to come and go across his land, watched as the earth closest to the oceans never really dried out; after many laps around the earth, a little green shoot began to break through the mud, drinking in the nutrients of the soil and stretching up towards the skies. Xaka Kikū looked on in amazement as the little shoot grew into the deity Halūlopati.
Halūlopati was the most beautiful being Xaka Kikū had ever seen; they were masculine beauty yet feminine charm; curvy yet slender; they were everything they needed to be to bring life into the world, which is exactly what they did. Reaching a hand down to the barren wastes of Ūh'inoro's tooth, Halūlopati imbued the earth with life, growing lush green grasses, tall trees filled with a rainbow of birds and rivers filled with all kinds of fish.
Seeing the look of longing in the eyes of the creatures of the night that Ūh'inoro had created, Halūlopati, benevolent being that they are, created a habitat for those creatures too; they grew as tall as the trees, and bigger still, until only the mountains could look down upon them. Once up there, they saw the whole world around them, and Ki'inoro being chased by Ūh'inoro, and Xaka Kikū beaming with pride, watched his perfect child as they laid down around the edge of the world, forming the jungle that would house the creatures of the night.
Thus, the world was created.
Wanting to protect the world Halūlopati gave life to, and hoping to create another child like them, Xaka Kikū made a clearing in the Jungle, letting in the light of Ki'inoro. Into that clearing he placed a rock of cooled lava from the volcano, and pressed it into the earth, causing water to well up and spill into a perfectly clear stream. Then he pushed some clouds together, hoping that the lightning would strike the rock and bring it to life; however the lightning was so powerful that it split the rock in two. Each half then crumbled into a fine powder, either side of the stream, growing wet from the water.
and nothing happened.
Crestfallen, Xaka Kikū began to turn away, until as Ki'inoro passed over the clearing, two small green shoots could be seen growing. They grew much faster than the one that made Halūlopati, but did not grow as big. They each grew leaves, and then a bud appeared at the top. These buds each opened, the five sepals replaced with five petals of the brightest yellow.
Contained in each flower, was at first glance, a small version of Halūlopati; however when Xaka Kikū looked more closely, he saw that in one flower, the person was masculine, charming and slender, and in the other, the person was curvy, feminine and beautiful. Both looked like Halūlopati, yet not like each other. Xaka Kikū, though he had hoped to have another child like Halūlopati, accepted these gifts from his child, for they were surely theirs, and embraced them, embuing them with the knowledge to care for his child, their parent as they aged.
Thus the Ki'inori were created.
