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Aikanaka (mythology)

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ʻAikanaka
SpouseHinahanaiakamalama
ChildrenHemā

In Hawaiian mythology, ʻAikanaka (or ʻAi Kanaka, ʻAikane) is a mortal chief.

His name means "man eater". His father was named Hulumanailani, whilst his mother was named Hinamaikalani.

ʻAikanaka married Hinahanaiakamalama (according to the Ulu genealogy). She gave birth to sons named Hemā and Puna. ʻAikanaka is also depicted to have married the moon goddess lona, who carried ʻAikanaka on her wings.

According to the Ulu genealogy, ʻAikanaka was born about 746 AD.

Notes

  1. Samuel Kamakau. Tales and Traditions of People of Old.
  2. E.R. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary (Lyon and Blair: Lambton Quay), 1891.
  3. Martha Warren Beckwith: Hawaiian Mythology, Reprinted in Honolulu (Univ. of Hawaii Press), 1996, pp. 214-25
  4. Knappert, Jan (1992). Pacific Mythology: An Encyclopedia of Myth and Legend. Aquarian/Thorsons. p. 169. ISBN 9781855381339.
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