Inoa | Name(s)
dzDzʻ
Hōʻuluʻulu manaʻo
ʻO dzDzʻ ke akua nui o nā ʻaumākua manō ma nā kai ʻewalu o Hawaiʻi. ʻO ia ka hiapo a Haumea a ke kaikūnane o Pele. Nāna nō i hoʻokele iā Pele a me kona ʻohana mai Kahiki i Hawaiʻi. ʻO kona mau kino ʻo ia ka manō a me ke kanaka. Ma ka lua pele ʻo īܱ, aia ka pali i kapa ʻia ʻo dzDzʻ no ke kaikunāne o Pele, a ma kēlā pali pono ʻī ʻaʻole pā ka uahi pele i ke alo o ka pali. Wahi a ka moʻolelo, he wahi kapu kēia ma muli o ke aloha ma waena o Pele a me kona kaikunāne. I kekahi moʻolelo noho ʻo dzDzʻ me ka wahine ʻo Kalei a hānau mai ʻo Nanaue, he kanaka manō kaulana ma nā wahi likeʻole o ka pae ʻāina ʻo Hawaiʻi.
Description
dzDzʻ is the most renowned of the ancestral shark gods of Hawaiʻi. He is the eldest child of Haumea, and the older brother of Pele. He is the one who navigated Pele and her ʻohana from Kahiki to Hawaiʻi. He takes both a shark and human form. At īܱ crater, there is a pali named dzDzʻ for the brother of Pele where the smoke never touches that particular cliffside. According to the stories of Pele, it is a sacred place that honors the love between Pele and her brother. In other stories, dzDzʻ has a child with the woman named Kalei and they have a child named Nanaue, a shark man who is another renowned akua with many stories that span across the Hawaiian archipelago.
ʻŌlelo kuhikuhi
E koho i kēia huaʻōlelo no nā kumuwaiwai pili iā dzDzʻ, ke akua manō nui o nā kai ʻewalu a me ke kaikunāne a hoʻokele o Pele a me kona ʻohana.
Instructions
Use this term for resources related to dzDzʻ, the renowned shark god of the eight seas and brother and navigator of Pele and her family.
Moʻokūʻauhau | Genealogy
Akua: | Deity:ᾱʻ첹첹DZDZ1; ōʻܱīԲʻ; Pele; 峾첹ǰ첹ʻ; Աhekili; Աuila
Makua | Parent: Papa/Haumea2; ; Աhoalani
Keiki | Child: Nanaue5
ʻĀina | Land/sea: īܱ
Hana | Practice: ʻǰ
Kinolau | Form: Ѳō1; Kai4
ūmole | Source(s)
(1) Pukui, Mary Kawena, and Samuel H. (Samuel Hoyt) Elbert. Hawaiian Dictionary : Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian. Rev. and enl. Ed. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986.
(2) Westervelt, W. D. (William Drake). Hawaiian Legends of Old Honolulu. Rutland, Vt: C.E. Tuttle, 1963. pages23-31.
(3) Kaopio, Matthew. Hawaiian Family Legends. Honolulu, Hawaii: Mutual Pub., 2003.
(4) Armitage, Kimo. Akua Hawaiʻi : Hawaiian Gods and Their Stories. Honolulu, Hawaii: Bishop Museum Press, 2005.”dzDzʻ & Nanaue”
(5) Beckwith, Martha Warren. Hawaiian Mythology. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1976.
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Mea haku | Created by: Puaokamele Dizon, Annemarie Paikai