Kalanikaumakaowākea

Kalanikaumakaowākea (or Kalanikaumaka-o-Wākea; kalani = "heavenly") was a King of the island of Maui in ancient Hawaii.[1][2][3] He was named after the god called Wākea, who is the Sky father in Hawaiian religion and mythology.

Family

Kalanikaumakaowākea was born to King Kauhiakama[4] (son of King Kamalalawalu and Queen Piʻilaniwahine I) and his wife, Queen Kapukini III, daughter of Chief Makakaualiʻi.[5]

He was a member of the Paumakua dynasty.

Kalanikaumakaowākea married a woman named Kekaikuihala I (Kaneakaula). Her parents were Chief Kuhinahinau of Kawaihae[6] and his wife Keakahiwaʻakama.[7]

These are the children of Kalanikaumakaowākea and Kekaikuihala:

Kalanikaumakaowākea also had a concubine, Makakuwahine (wahine = "woman");[9] their children were:

References

  1. Rubellite Kawena Johnson (1981). Kumulipo, the Hawaiian hymn of creation.
  2. He lei no ʻEmalani. Queen Emma Foundation, 2001.
  3. National Genealogical Society Quarterly
  4. Patrick Vinton Kirch (2010). How Chiefs Became Kings: Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawai'i. (In How Chiefs Became Kings, Patrick Vinton Kirch addresses a central problem in anthropological archaeology: the emergence of "archaic states" whose distinctive feature was divine kingship.) Page 110.
  5. Kumulipo
  6. Peleioholani, Solomon Lehuanui Kalaniomaiheuila, The Complete Ancestry of John Liwai Kalniopuuikapali-o-Molilele-ma-wai-o-Ahukini-Kau-Hawaii Ena, Ke Aloha Aina (newspaper). March 2, 1907 & March 9, 1907. Reprinted in Hawaiian Genealogies.
  7. Ka Makaainana (newspaper). June 8, 1896. Mookuauhau Ali'i: Na Iwikuamoo o Hawaii Nei Mai Kahiko Loa. Reprinted in "HAWAIIAN GENEALOGIES VOLUME 1" (Edith McKinzie).
  8. Edith K. McKinzie and Ishmael W. Stagner (1986). Hawaiian Genealogies: Extracted from Hawaiian Language Newspapers. 2. University of Hawaii Press. p. 101. ISBN 0-939154-37-4.
  9. Family of Chiefess Makakuwahine
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