Kanaloa

One of the four great Hawaiian gods; lord of the ocean and constant companion of Kāne.

Parentage

Recorded default; alternative parentage accounts are listed separately below.

No parents recorded in the default.

Parentage accounts

Each account is a separate source claim. The parentage and children listed outside these accounts use the recorded default. Selecting an account in the interactive app updates its lineage, descent classification and inherited-power candidates. Linked pedigree accounts are selected together; other records retain their recorded parentage. Claims of ancestry are not proof of biological descent or attested powers.

• Fornander: island genealogy

  deity by descent in this account.

  • father: WakeaFornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore, first series (1916), Story of the Formation of These Islands and Origin of This Race, ch. IV (primary)
  • mother: PapaFornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore, first series (1916), Story of the Formation of These Islands and Origin of This Race, ch. IV (primary)
  Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore, first series (1916), Story of the Formation of These Islands and Origin of This Race, ch. IV (primary)

Names and tradition associations

• Tangaroa Māori · resolvedRoland B. Dixon, Oceanic Mythology (1916), Part I, ch. I, pp. 11–13 (secondary)

Variant accounts

• source review correctionThe cited claim concerns an offering or worship site, not a festival. It is retained in its corresponding cult category.Martha Beckwith, Hawaiian Mythology (1940), ch. V, pp. 60–66 (secondary)

Domains

• ocean
• deep ocean wind
• healing

Powers

• Rule the ocean and its deep currents
• Heal the sick and counter sorcery
• Open fresh-water springs with Kane

Epithets

• Kanaloa-nui latin · Kanaloa-nuiGreat KanaloaBeckwith, Martha. Hawaiian Mythology. Yale University Press, 1940, ch. 'Kane and Kanaloa'. (ethnography)
• Kāne-and-Kanaloa, nā akua ʻelua latin · Kane a me KanaloaKāne and Kanaloa, the paired water-finding gods (formulaic invocation-pair)Beckwith, Martha. Hawaiian Mythology. Yale University Press, 1940, ch. 'Kane and Kanaloa'. (ethnography)

Relations

• counterpart of: TangaroaCross-island counterpart comparison. This link does not identify the portrayals as one individual or transfer genealogy, cult, powers or objects.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• counterpart of: TagaloaCross-island counterpart comparison. This link does not identify the portrayals as one individual or transfer genealogy, cult, powers or objects.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• counterpart of: Ta'aroaCross-island counterpart comparison. This link does not identify the portrayals as one individual or transfer genealogy, cult, powers or objects.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• counterpart of: Tangaloa 'Eitumatupu'aCross-island counterpart comparison. This link does not identify the portrayals as one individual or transfer genealogy, cult, powers or objects.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• counterpart of: TangaroaCross-island counterpart comparison. This link does not identify the portrayals as one individual or transfer genealogy, cult, powers or objects.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• counterpart of: TangaroaCross-island counterpart comparison. This link does not identify the portrayals as one individual or transfer genealogy, cult, powers or objects.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• counterpart of: TakaroaCross-island counterpart comparison. This link does not identify the portrayals as one individual or transfer genealogy, cult, powers or objects.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• counterpart of: TanaoaCross-island counterpart comparison. This link does not identify the portrayals as one individual or transfer genealogy, cult, powers or objects.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• companion: KāneReciprocal of polynesian_kane.companion — Constant companions in chant and tale, opening springs and planting awa together.Martha Beckwith, Hawaiian Mythology (1940) (secondary); Martha Beckwith, Hawaiian Mythology (1940), ch. V, pp. 60–66 (secondary)
• comparative identification: TangaroaTregear compares the island traditions under Tangaroa. This is a comparative counterpart identification, not an assertion that Māori Tangaroa and Hawaiian Kanaloa share one biography or family. Beckwith separately questions Christianized portrayals of Kanaloa.Edward Tregear, The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary (1891), s.v. 'Tangaroa' (secondary); Martha Beckwith, Hawaiian Mythology (1940), ch. 4 'Kane and Kanaloa' (secondary); Edward Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary (1891), pp. 463–464, Tangaroa entry (secondary); Martha Beckwith, Hawaiian Mythology (1940), ch. V, pp. 60–66 (secondary)
• spouse: HaumeaMartha Beckwith, Hawaiian Mythology (1940), ch. XIX, pp. 278 (secondary)
• sibling: HaumeaKamakau account.Martha Beckwith, Hawaiian Mythology (1940), ch. XIX, pp. 278–279 (secondary)
• genealogical group partner: UkinaopiopioThe table brackets several ancestors in one column. This edge preserves membership in that group, not a separately attested individual marriage.Fornander Collection, first series (1916), History of Kualii, ch. IV (primary)
• sibling: MaliuMartha Beckwith, Hawaiian Mythology (1940), ch. XXI, pp. 309–310, Kumu-uli genealogy (secondary)

Sources

• existence: Beckwith, Hawaiian Mythology (1940) (primary)