Maui (island)

Hawaiian · numen · mythic · numen

The island Maui is personified as a child in the island genealogies; this is distinct from the hero Maui.

Relations

father: Wakea
mother: Papa
father: Kāne
mother: Walinuu

Sources

Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore, first series (1916), Story of the Formation of These Islands and Origin of This Race, ch. I,IV

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