Laʻa Maomao

Laʻa Maomao

In Hawaiian mythology, Laʻamaomao is the goddess of the wind, she carried a gourd that contains all the winds of Hawaiʻi, "which could be called forth by chanting their names", the gourd was passed down byLaʻamaomao, the Hawaiian wind goddess, to her granddaughter Laʻamaomao; to her granddaughter's son Pakaʻa; to Pakaʻa's son, Ku-a-Pakaʻa. In "The Triple Marriage of Laa-Mai-Kahiki", Laʻamaomao is described as a god rather than a goddess. He accompanies Moikeha to Hawaiʻi from Kahiki and settles at Hale-o-Lono on the island of Molokaʻi, where he was worshiped as an ʻaumakua, or deity, of the winds. The female gender of the wind deity in the Pakaʻa story seems to be a Hawaiian development as the wind deity in other Polynesian traditions is male.

Pantheon: Polynesian Culture: Polynesian Civilization: Polynesia Period: 1000 BCE – present

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