Inoa | Name(s)

Mānaiakalani

Hiʻona ʻāina | Land characteristic: ʻOhana Hōkū (Hōkū)

Hiʻona ʻāina o loko o kēia wahi | Feature(s) located within this place: Pimoe; Piraʻetea, Keoe; Humu; Kamakaunuiamaui

Hiʻona ʻāina nona kēia wahi | Feature(s) that contain this place: Hōkūnohoaupuni

Hōʻuluʻulu manaʻo

ʻO ke kolu o nā ʻohana hōkū ʻehā, kapa ʻia no ka mākau hoʻokalakupua ʻo Māui. ʻIke ʻia kēia ʻohana hōkū ma ke kau wela a me ke kau hāʻulelau. ʻO kekahi o nā hōkū ma kēia ʻohana ʻo ia ʻo Pimoe, Piraʻetea, Keoe, Humu, a me Kamakaunuiamaui.

Description

The summer-fall Star Family is Mānaiakalani, the Fishhook of Maui. A triangle of stars in the northeast represents a coil of fishing line that belongs to the demigod, Maui. It extends southward and is tied to the top of a fish hook-shaped constellation. It fishes along the bottom of the sea for a magical Giant Trevally, Pimoe, Sagittarius. The three stars in the northeast form the Summer Triangle: Piraʻetea, Deneb in the constellation Cygnus the Swan; Keoe, Vega in the constellation Lyra the Harp; and Humu, Altair in the constellation Aquilae the Eagle. Join the Summer Triangle in the northeast to Kamakaunuiamaui (Mauiʻs Fish Hook), Scorpio, in the southeast. The hook is baited and fishing for the Giant Trevally, Pimoe.

Moʻokūʻauhau | Genealogy

Akua | Deity: Māui (Akua)

Hana | Practice: Holo waʻa

Kūmole | Source(s)

“Hawaiian Star Lines and Names for Stars,” Hawaiian Voyaging Traditions (website).

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.

“The Four Star Families,” ʻImiloa Astronomy Center (website).

Hoʻopili ʻia i | Applied to: No Mānaiakalani; ʻAiʻai

Mea haku | Created by: Na ka hui ʻimi naʻauao o Ka Wai Hāpai