In “The Triple Marriage of Laa-Mai-Kahiki” (Kalākaua, The Legends and Myths of Hawaii), La‘amaomao is described as a god rather than a goddess.
He accompanies Moikeha to Hawai‘i from Kahiki and settles at Hale-o-Lono on the island of Moloka‘i, where he was worshiped as an ‘aumakua, or deity, of the winds.
The female gender of the wind deity in the Paka‘a story seems to be a Hawaiian development as the wind deity in other Polynesian traditions is male (Ra‘a—Society Islands, Raka—Cook Islands, Raka-maomao—New Zealand).
[1]The male version of the wind divinity was said to be created in the midst of chaos by his father, the sun god.
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