Kalanikaumakaowākea (or Kalanikaumaka-o-Wākea) was an Aliʻi nui of the island of Maui in ancient Hawaii. He was named after the god called Wākea, who is the Sky father in Hawaiian religion and mythology.

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Kalanikaumakaowākea was the son of the Aliʻi Kauhiakama and his wife, Queen Kapukini III (daughter of Chief Makakaualiʻi);[1] however, some accounts have him the piʻo (the sacred child of the siblings) son of Kauhiakama and his sister Piʻilanikapo.[2] He was a member of the Paumakua dynasty.[3]

Kalanikaumakaowākea married a woman named Kekaikuihala (Kaneakaula),[4] whose parents were Chief Kuhinahinau of Kawaihae and his wife Keakahiwaʻakama.[4]

These are the children of Kalanikaumakaowākea and Kekaikuihala:

Kalanikaumakaowākea also had a second wife named Makakuwahine (wahine = "woman"), who was the daughter of Kanelaʻaukahi and Kamaka, of the Keaunui-a-Maweke-Laakona family. With Makaku, Kalanikaumakaowākea had a son named ʻUmi-a-Liloa II. Another son named Kauloaiwi has an unknown mother.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Abraham Fornander (1880). An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origins and Migrations, and the Ancient History of the Hawaiian People to the Times of Kamehameha I. Trubner & Company. p. 209.
  2. ^ Patrick Vinton Kirch (2 December 2010). How Chiefs Became Kings: Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawai'i. University of California Press. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-520-94784-9.
  3. ^ Kamakau, Samuel (1992). Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii. Honolulu: Kamehameha Schools Press. ISBN 0-87336-014-1.
  4. ^ a b Edith Kawelohea McKinzie (February 1986). Hawaiian Genealogies: Extracted from Hawaiian Language Newspapers. University of Hawaii Press. p. 115. ISBN 978-0-939154-37-1.
  5. ^ Edith K. McKinzie and Ishmael W. Stagner (1986). Hawaiian Genealogies: Extracted from Hawaiian Language Newspapers. Vol. 2. University of Hawaii Press. p. 101. ISBN 0-939154-37-4.