Across Polynesia, Hina is a woman who got tired of beating bark cloth for an ungrateful household, climbed a rainbow, and went to live on the Moon.

In Hawaiian versions she is Hina-i-ka-malama, Hina-in-the-Moon, and the dark markings are her and her tapa-beating board. Her name is a component of a great many Polynesian words for the Moon itself, so she is not so much a goddess of the Moon as the Moon with a story attached.