Inoa
Haumea
Hōʻuluʻulu manaʻo:
He akua wahine āiwaiwa ʻo Haumea. He lehulehu kona mau kino, no ka mea, ua lehulehu kona mau hānau wawā.
Lehulehu kāna mau ipo, kāna mau keiki a me kāna mau moʻopuna. E like me Pele mā.
ʻOiai he ʻike hohonu ko Haumea no ka hānau a hoʻohānau ʻana i nā keiki, he akua nō ʻo ia no ia kuleana a no ke kuleana o ka wahine. He pilina kona me ka honua a me ke kumu ʻulu.
Description
Haumea is a remarkable diety of Hawaiʻi. She takes many forms because she was reincarnated many times.
She has numerous lovers, children, and grandchildren, including the Pele clan.
Due to Haumea’s profound knowledge of childbirth, she is a goddess of that practice as well as that of the feminine. She is also associated with the earth as well as the ‘ulu tree.
ʻŌlelo kuhikuhi
E koho i kēia huaʻōlelo no nā kumuwaiwai pili i ke akua wahine o Haumea.
Instructions
Use this term for resources related to the female deity Haumea.
Moʻokūʻauhau | Genealogy
Akua | Deity: Wākea1,2,3,4,5; Puna5
Keiki | Child: Pele clan
ʻĀina | Land/sea: Kilohana3,4; Nuuanu; Oʻahu (as Papa); Puʻuloa, Oʻahu6; Pae ʻĀina o Hawaiʻi; Hawaiʻi; Maui; Molokaʻi; Lānaʻi; Kauaʻi; Niʻihau; Kahoʻolawe
Hana | Practice: Hoʻohānau keiki
Hanana | Event
Origin of the breadfruit6
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. Thrum, Thomas G. (Thomas George). More Hawaiian Folk Tales; a Collection of Native Legends and Traditions. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1923. pages 197-213.
3. Loebel-Fried, Caren. Hawaiian Legends of the Guardian Spirits. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2002. pages11-19.
4. Westervelt, W. D. -. Legends of Old Honolulu. Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian. G.H. Ellis 1915, 1915. pages 23-31.
5. Westervelt, W. D. (William Drake). Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology). Boston: Press of Geo. H. Ellis Co., 1915. pages 152-162.
6. Fornander, Abraham, and Thomas G. (Thomas George) Thrum. Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-Lore : The Hawaiian Account of the Formation of Their Islands and Origin of Their Race, with the Traditions of Their Migrations, Etc. Millwood, N.Y: Kraus Reprint, 1985. page 678.
Hoʻopili ʻia i | Applied to: Na pule kahiko : ancient Hawaiian prayers (page 10): Prayer to Haumea; Akua Hawaiʻi : Hawaiian gods and their stories: Haumea; Daughters of Haumea = Nā kaikamahine ʻo Haumea : women of ancient Hawaiʻi
Mea haku | Created by: Puaokamele Dizon
Mea loiloi | Edited by: Annemarie Paikai