Nuʻakea

Nuʻakea was, in Hawaiian tradition, a high chiefess born on Oʻahu, the daughter of Keaunui of ʻEwa and granddaughter of the Tahitian-born wizard chief Māweke, whom chants place in the eleventh century. She was named after the goddess of milk and lactation.

She went to Molokaʻi and married its high chief Keʻoloʻewa, bearing his successor Kapau-a-Nuʻakea. The scholar Martha Beckwith held that the historical chiefess was later deified as the goddess Nuʻakea. Her great-granddaughter Hualani married the Hawaiʻi Island chief Kanipahu, ruler until c. 1245.