Hikule'o
Hikule'o (also known as Havea Hikule'o) is the powerful Tongan goddess of Pulotu, the sacred underworld realm where ancestral spirits dwell after death. She is one of the three supreme deities in Tongan cosmology, alongside her brothers Tangaloa (god of the sky) and Maui (god of the earth). According to myth, she created several volcanic islands by casting stones from the heavens, including Kao, Tofua, Hunga Ha'apai, Hunga Tonga, Late, and Fonualei. Hikule'o governs the hidden cycles of life and death, not as a destructive force but as a custodian of ancestral wisdom and lineage continuity. Sh