Kāne

Highest of the four great Hawaiian gods; deity of creation, sunlight and fresh water.

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)

Children in alternative accounts

• Maui (island): Kane walinuuFornander 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)

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

• creation
• fresh water
• sunlight

Powers

• Give life and form to humankind
• Open freshwater springs by striking the ground

Epithets

• Kāne-i-ka-wai-ola hawaiian · cultKāne of the Living Water (the water of life)Martha Beckwith, Hawaiian Mythology (1940), ch. 1 'The Coming of the Gods' (secondary)

Relations

• companion: KanaloaConstant 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)
• equated with: TāneReciprocal of polynesian_tane.equated-with — Cognate theonym (PPn *Tane, t>k in Hawaiian). Both male generative powers and makers of humankind; Maori Tane is forest-and-birds specific, Hawaiian Kane broadened to sunlight, fresh water and supreme creator status.Edward Tregear, The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary (1891), s.v. 'Tane' (secondary); Martha Beckwith, Hawaiian Mythology (1940), ch. 4 (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)