Inoa
ʻAiʻai
Hōʻuluʻulu manaʻo
He akua kāne ʻo ʻAiʻai. He keiki ʻo ia na Kūʻulakai lāua ʻo Hinapukuiʻa. Ua noho ʻo ia me kona mau mākua ma ʻAleamai ma loko o ka moku o Hāna ma Maui mokupuni. He akua ʻo ʻAiʻai no ka lawaiʻa ʻana. ʻO kekahi o kāna mau hana kaulana ʻo ia hoʻi ka hana ʻupena, a me ke kūkulu ʻana i mau koʻa a i mau kūʻula a puni nā mokupuni o Hawaiʻi.
Description
ʻAiʻai is a deity of Hawaiʻi. He is the child of Kūʻulakai and Hinapukuiʻa. He lived with his parents in ʻAleamai within the moku of Hāna on Maui island. ʻAiʻai is a god of fishing. Some of his famous deeds include making nets and building fishing stations and fishing shrines around the islands of Hawaiʻi.
ʻŌlelo kuhikuhi
E koho i kēia huaʻōlelo no nā kumuwaiwai pili iā ʻAiʻai, ke akua pili i nā loko iʻa.
Instructions
Use this term for resources related to ʻAiʻai the god associated with fishponds.
Moʻokūʻauhau
Akua: Makua: (1) Kūʻulakai (k); Hinapukuiʻa (w)
ʻĀina: Aleamai; (2) Hāna (Maui)
Hana: (2) Lawaiʻa; Hana ʻupena; Constructing koʻa
Kūmole
1. Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, Rev. and enl. ed (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986).
2. Roy Alameida, Nā Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi o Ka Wā Kahiko = Stories of Old Hawaiʻi (Honolulu, Hawaiʻi: Bess Press, 1997), 45-49.
Created by: Puaokamele Dizon
Edited by: Annemarie Paikai