Inoa | Name(s)
Kamohoaliʻi
Hōʻuluʻulu manaʻo
ʻO Kamohoaliʻi ke akua nui o nā ʻaumākua manō ma nā kai ʻewalu o Hawaiʻi. ʻO ia ka hiapo a Haumea a ke kaikūnane o Pele. Nāna nō i hoʻokele iā Pele a me kona ʻohana mai Kahiki i Hawaiʻi. ʻO kona mau kino ʻo ia ka manō a me ke kanaka. Ma ka lua pele ʻo Kīlauea, aia ka pali i kapa ʻia ʻo Kamohoaliʻi no ke kaikunāne o Pele, a ma kēlā pali pono ʻī ʻaʻole pā ka uahi pele i ke alo o ka pali. Wahi a ka moʻolelo, he wahi kapu kēia ma muli o ke aloha ma waena o Pele a me kona kaikunāne. I kekahi moʻolelo noho ʻo Kamohoaliʻi me ka wahine ʻo Kalei a hānau mai ʻo Nanaue, he kanaka manō kaulana ma nā wahi likeʻole o ka pae ʻāina ʻo Hawaiʻi.
Description
Kamohoaliʻi is the most renowned of the ancestral shark gods of Hawaiʻi. He is the eldest child of Haumea, and the older brother of Pele. He is the one who navigated Pele and her ʻohana from Kahiki to Hawaiʻi. He takes both a shark and human form. At Kīlauea crater, there is a pali named Kamohoaliʻi for the brother of Pele where the smoke never touches that particular cliffside. According to the stories of Pele, it is a sacred place that honors the love between Pele and her brother. In other stories, Kamohoaliʻi has a child with the woman named Kalei and they have a child named Nanaue, a shark man who is another renowned akua with many stories that span across the Hawaiian archipelago.
ʻŌlelo kuhikuhi
E koho i kēia huaʻōlelo no nā kumuwaiwai pili iā Kamohoaliʻi, ke akua manō nui o nā kai ʻewalu a me ke kaikunāne a hoʻokele o Pele a me kona ʻohana.
Instructions
Use this term for resources related to Kamohoaliʻi, the renowned shark god of the eight seas and brother and navigator of Pele and her family.
Moʻokūʻauhau | Genealogy
Akua: | Deity: Hiʻiakaikapoliopele1; Kapōʻulakīnaʻu; Pele; Nāmakaokahaʻi; Kānehekili; Kāneuila
Makua | Parent: Papa/Haumea2; Wākea; Kānehoalani
Keiki | Child: Nanaue5
ʻĀina | Land/sea: Kīlauea
Hana | Practice: Hoʻokele
Kinolau | Form: Manō1; Kai4
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) Westervelt, W. D. (William Drake). Hawaiian Legends of Old Honolulu. Rutland, Vt: C.E. Tuttle, 1963. pages23-31.
(3) Kaopio, Matthew. Hawaiian Family Legends. Honolulu, Hawaii: Mutual Pub., 2003.
(4) Armitage, Kimo. Akua Hawaiʻi : Hawaiian Gods and Their Stories. Honolulu, Hawaii: Bishop Museum Press, 2005.”Kamohoaliʻi & Nanaue”
(5) Beckwith, Martha Warren. Hawaiian Mythology. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1976.
Hoʻopili ʻia i | Applied to: He moʻolelo kaʻao no Kaʻehuikimanōopuʻuloa, ke keiki manō a Kapukapu mā lāua ʻo Hōlei, The water of Kane
Mea haku | Created by: Puaokamele Dizon, Annemarie Paikai