In Hawaiian mythology, Nuakea is a beneficent goddess of milk and lactation.
[1] This name was also a title for a wet nurse of royal prince, according to David Malo.
[2] Nuakea was appealed to staunch the flow of milk in the mother's breasts.
There was a chiefess named after the goddess—Nuʻakea, wife of Keʻoloʻewa, chief of Molokai.
Martha Warren Beckwith suggested that Nuʻakea was deified.