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Ka’ahupahau
A Hawaiian goddess who dwells in a cave, where she guards the waters off
Oahu, near the entrance to Pearl Harbor, against man-eating sharks. Ka’ahupahau
was widely believed to have alerted the captain of an American destroyer, who
sank a Japanese mini-submarine—a kind of 20th-century shark—endeavoring to
attack the U.S. naval installation on December 7, 1941. She is described as a fair-
skinned woman with long, wavy, light-colored hair, one of several mythic person-
alities suggesting racially alien visitors to Polynesia in the ancient past from
Lemuria.
(See Lemuria)Kaboi
A flood hero revered by the Karaya Indians, whose ancestors he led into a
massive cave as a place of refuge. After the waters retreated, they followed him
back into the world and were guided by the song of a bird. This bird motif recurs
in several deluge traditions around the world, not only in Genesis. Kaboi is familiar
throughout South America, known as Ka-mu to the Arawaks, Ta-mu to the Caribs,
Kame to the Bakairi, and Zume to the Paraguayans.