Wakea

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Wākea
In Hawaiian mythology, Wākea is the eldest son of Kahiko (Ancient One), and lives in Olalowaia. Wākea is the ancestor of the aristocracy, the ali‘i. The priests and common people come from his brothers. In another legend, Wākea lives in Hihiku and marries Pāpā, also called Pāpā-nui or Pāpā-nui-hanau-moku, who is a princess of Olalo-i-mehani and a granddaughter of Princess Kaoupe-alii. The Hawaiian Islands were created by Wākea and Pāpā. Wākea had sexual relations with Hina and she gave birth to the island of Moloka‘i. In the genealogies, Wākea and Pāpā are 37th in the Kumuhonua genealogy, and 28th in the Kumu‘uli. In one tradition, the first person on Earth was the woman Lailai. She and her husband Keali‘iwahilani are the parents of Kahiko, the father of Wākea. Wākea made the land and sea from the calabash or gourd (‘ipu) of Pāpā. He threw it up high, and it became the heavens. He made the rain from its juice and from the seeds he made the sun, moon, and stars (Tregear 1891:28-29, 392).
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Wakea
[Polynesian] The Hawaiian equivalent of Vatea. His wife Papa gave birth to a calabash, out of which Wakea fashioned the vault of the sky. A different version of this myth relates that Papa was a giant bird who laid an egg which opened and became the island of Hawaii. Soon, green trees grew there and Wakea and Papa went to live there themselves, as the first human beings. It happens quite often that gods descend to earth and live human lives for a time.


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