Ku-waha-ilo
Also known as: Ku-aha-ilo · Family: the Pele family · Role: father of Pele in most of the legends · First appears: Chapter II · How Pele came to Hawaii · Part 1
Again and again, the legends give Ku-waha-ilo as the father of Pele and Hiiaka, with Haumea as their mother. In some accounts, Hina was his sister, and she quarrelled with him because he devoured all the people.
Chapter X · Genealogy of the Pele Family · Part 2 names Na-maka-o-ka-hai as another daughter of Ku-waha-ilo and Haumea. The account says she was born from Haumea’s breasts and Pele from her thighs; it also gives differing accounts of Ku-waha-ilo’s origins.
Relationship record
Life events
- Again and again, the legends give Ku-waha-ilo as Pele’s father and Haumea as her mother.(Chapter II · How Pele came to Hawaii · Part 1)
- In these legends, Hina was sometimes said to be Ku-waha-ilo’s sister, and she quarrelled with him.(Chapter II · How Pele came to Hawaii · Part 1)
- With: Hina
- “Hina is sometimes said to be Ku-waha-ilo’s sister in these legends. She quarrelled with him because he devoured all the people.”
Chapter II · How Pele came to Hawaii · Part 1
- child: Pele “Again and again the legends give Ku-waha-ilo as the father and Haumea as the mother of the Pele family.”
- siblings with Hina “Hina is sometimes said to be Ku-waha-ilo’s sister in these legends.”
- child: Hiiaka (The passage refers to the Pele family; Hiiaka is identified as a member of it.) “Again and again the legends give Ku-waha-ilo as the father and Haumea as the mother of the Pele family.”
Chapter X · Genealogy of the Pele Family · Part 1
- child: Pele “Another set of legends published in the earliest newspapers, printed in the Hawaiian language, say that Ku-waha-ilo and Haumea were the parents.”
Chapter X · Genealogy of the Pele Family · Part 2
- child: Pele “The god Ku, under the name Ku-waha-ilo, was the father. Haumea was the mother.”
- child: Na-maka-o-ka-hai “The god Ku, under the name Ku-waha-ilo, was the father. Haumea was the mother. Her father was a man-eater. Her mother was a precipice (i.e., belonged to the earth). Others say Ku-waha-ilo had neither father nor mother, but dwelt in the far-off heavens. (This probably meant that he lived beyond the most distant boundary of the horizon.) Two daughters were born. The first, Na-maka-o-ka-hai, was born from the breasts of Haumea. Pele was born from the thighs.”
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Extracted from the original text of Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes. Made with Rho MD.