In one of the many Hawaiian stories of Lono, he is a fertility and music god who descended to Earth on a rainbow to marry Laka.

In Hawaiian weather terminology, the winter Kona storms that bring rain to leeward areas are associated with Lono.

A Hawaiian god or "an ak[ua] is a being of nature, one of immense power, which may be an invisible spirit or a living person.

It was traditionally held that the god Lono had appeared as a human who then established games and the annual taxing.

"[4] Better known to the Hawaiian mythology is an earlier Lono-i-ka-makahiki from the ʻUmi line of ruling Hawaii Island aliʻi (i.e., chiefs, royalty).

This Lono was born and raised near the graves of Keawe and his descendants, which were near the place of Captain Cook's monument.

A more plausible candidate for the god Lono is the legendary Laʻa-mai-Kahiki (i.e., the "Sacred-one-from-Tahiti), who purportedly lived several centuries earlier.