Hawaii

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Ever since our island people
could remember,

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Bora Bora
had been the home of the gods.

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Home of Kanaloa,
King of the Underworld...

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of Pele,
the little mother of volcanoes...

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of Ta'aora, god of the ocean waters,
god of the winds and the storms,

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of Mano the shark, who guided his children
through secret pathways of the sea

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when they were lost,

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and of great Kane,
father of the universe

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and all that lived therein.

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And so it remained
until in the days of Kanakoa the King

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there came upon the people of this island

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the most terrible anguish
that can afflict the spirit of man...

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a time when the gods
began to change.

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For in that day there arose a new god

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whose appetite for human sacrifice
heaped the altars high with his dead...

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Oro. Oro whose eyes
were the eyes of death.

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So King Kanakoa
called together his people and said,

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"This new god, this Oro,
is a god of vengeance and wrath.

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Let us run away from him."

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The State Canoe of Bora Bora
was the swiftest vessel

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in all the oceans of the world.

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They filled it with roots and seeds
to plant in a new land