 It should also be noted that Io seems to be present in mythologies from Hawai‘i, the Society Islands, and the Cook Islands.In some versions of Tāwhaki's story, he sends his people to a high place to escape a flood which he summons to drown the village of his jealous brothers-in-law.There is a suggestion that this story might have inspiration from the Genesis flood narrative, and Hemā is sometimes reimagined as Shem.