Nuʻakea (deity)

In Hawaiian mythology, Nuʻakea is a beneficent goddess of milk and lactation.

This name was also a title for a wet nurse of royal prince, according to David Malo.

Nuʻakea was appealed to, to staunch the flow of milk in the mother's breasts.

Euhemerism

There was a chiefess named after the goddess—Nuʻakea, wife of Keʻoloʻewa, chief of Molokai.

Martha Warren Beckwith suggested that Nuʻakea was deified.

According to the myth, Nuʻakea was a goddess who came to Earth and married mortal chief Keʻoloʻewa, but it is known that historical Nuʻakea was born on Oahu.

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