Aikanaka (mythology)

In Hawaiian mythology, ʻAikanaka (or ʻAi Kanaka, ʻAikane) is a mortal chief.

For other uses, see Aikanaka (disambiguation).
ʻAikanaka
Spouse(s)Lona
Hinahanaiakamalama
ChildrenHemā

His name means "man eater". His father was named Hulumanailani, whilst his mother was named Hinamaikalani.[1]

ʻAikanaka married Hinahanaiakamalama (according to the Ulu genealogy). She bore him sons Hemā and Puna.[2][3]

According to the Ulu genealogy, ʻAikanaka was born about 746 AD.

Notes
  1. Samuel Kamakau. Tales and Traditions of People of Old.
  2. E.R. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary (Lyon and Blair: Lambton Quay), 1891.
  3. Martha Warren Beckwith: Hawaiian Mythology, Reprinted in Honolulu (Univ. of Hawaii Press), 1996, pp. 214-25
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