ʻAiʻai

Inoa | Name(s)

ʻAiʻai

Hōʻuluʻulu manaʻo

He akua kāne ʻo ʻAiʻai. He keiki ʻo ia na Kūʻulakai lāua ʻo Hinapukuiʻa. Ua noho ʻo ia me kona mau mākua ma ʻAleamai ma loko o ka moku o Hāna ma Maui mokupuni. He akua ʻo ʻAiʻai no ka lawaiʻa ʻana. ʻO kekahi o kāna mau hana kaulana ʻo ia hoʻi ka hana ʻupena, a me ke kūkulu ʻana i mau koʻa a i mau kūʻula a puni nā mokupuni o Hawaiʻi. 

Description

ʻAiʻai is a deity of Hawaiʻi. He is the child of Kūʻulakai and Hinapukuiʻa. He lived with his parents in ʻAleamai within the moku of Hāna on Maui island. ʻAiʻai is a god of fishing. Some of his famous deeds include making nets and building fishing stations and fishing shrines around the islands of Hawaiʻi.

ʻŌlelo kuhikuhi

E koho i kēia huaʻōlelo no nā kumuwaiwai pili iā ʻAiʻai, ke akua pili i nā loko iʻa.

Instructions

Use this term for resources related to ʻAiʻai the god associated with fishponds.

Moʻokūʻauhau | Genealogy

Makua | Parent: Kūʻulakai1; Hinapukuiʻa

ʻĀina | Land/sea: Aleamai2; Hāna

Hana | Practice: Lawaiʻa2; Hana ʻupena; Kūkulu koʻa

Kūmole | Source(s)

1. Pukui, Mary Kawena, and Samuel H. (Samuel Hoyt) Elbert. Hawaiian Dictionary : Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian. Rev. and enl. Ed. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986.

2. Alameida, Roy, and Betty Dunford. Nā Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi o Ka Wā Kahiko = Stories of Old Hawaiʻi. Honolulu, Hawaiʻi: Bess Press, 1997. pages 45-49.

Hoʻopili ʻia i |Applied to: Kuulakai, ʻAiʻai,

Mea haku | Created by: Puaokamele Dizon

Mea loiloi | Edited by: Annemarie Paikai