This pre-missionary wooden statue of Kamapua'a was found in a cave in up-country Maui. It is on display at the Bailey House Museum. The Bailey House Museum is a museum of Hawaiian history located in Wailuku Maui, owned and operated by the Maui Historical Society

In Hawaiian mythology, Kamapuaʻa ("hog child")^[1] is a hog-man fertility demi-god associated with Lono, the god of agriculture. Hawaiian mythology is a variant of a more general Polynesian mythology. Pigs, also called hogs or' swine', are Ungulates which have been domesticated as sources of food leather and similar products since ancient times In polytheistic religions and mythologies a fertility god is a male deity who is responsible for ensuring human Fertility. The term " demigod " meaning "half-god" is used to describe mythological figures whose one parent was a god and whose other parent was human In Hawaiian mythology, Lono is a fertility and music god who descended to Earth on a Rainbow to marry Laka. The son of Hina and Kahiki-ula, the chief of Kauai, Kamapua'a was particularly connected with the island of Maui. Kauai (in standard Hawaiian kauˈaʔi in Kauai- Ni{{okina}}ihau dialect; usually spelled Kauai outside the Hawaiian Islands and ˈkaʊɑɪ or /kaʊˈɑɪ/ The Island of Maui is the second-largest of the Hawaiian Islands at 727 ^[2]

A kapua (trickster), Kamapuaʻa is best known for his romantic pursuit of the fire goddess Pele, with whom he shared a turbulent relationship. In Hawaiian mythology, the Kupua are a group of demigods heroic Tricksters Hawaiian myths and Legends abound with such characters In Mythology, and in the study of Folklore and Religion, a trickster is a God, Goddess, spirit, man woman or anthropomorphic In Hawaiian mythology, Pele (ˈpɛlɛ PEH-leh not PAY-lay is the goddess of Fire, Lightning, Despite Pele's power, Kamapuaʻa's persistence allows him to turn her lava rock into fertile soil.

He is linked with the humuhumunukunukuapuaa, also know as the reef triggerfish and presently the state fish of Hawaii. humu­humu­nuku­nuku­āpuaa redirects here For the Rhinecanthus aculeatus of the same name see Lagoon triggerfish. ^[3]

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References

• Alameida, Roy (1997) Stories of Old Hawaii, Bess Press, ISBN 978-1573060264.
• Beckwith, Martha Warren (1970) Hawaiian Mythology, University of Hawaii Press, ISBN 978-0-8248-0514-2.