Nuʻakea
deity Hawaiian mythology single tradition · 1
In Hawaiian mythology, Nuʻakea is a beneficent goddess of milk and lactation. Nuʻakea was appealed to, to staunch the flow of milk in the mother's breasts. This name was also a title for a wet nurse of royal prince, according to David Malo.
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“There was a chiefess named after the goddess—Nuʻakea, wife of Keʻoloʻewa, chief of Molokai. Martha Warren Beckwith suggested that Nuʻakea was deified. According to the myth, Nuʻakea was a goddess who came to Earth and married mortal chief Keʻoloʻewa, but it is known that historical Nuʻakea was born on Oahu.”
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