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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