“The {{w|Polynesians}} of old conceived of the sky as a dome or inverted bowl resting upon the rim of the hemispherical earth. One legend compares the universe with a {{w|calabash}}, the cover of which formed the sky, while the bowl was earth, land, and sea, the juice became rain, and the seeds were metamorphosed into sun, moon, and stars. Several writers divide into three zones the space between the earth—paa ilalo, the "solid below"—and the heavens—paa iluna, the "solid above." {{w|Kepelino}}'s ... work contains several allusions to the triple heavens, lani kaukolu ...”