Kāneikokala
Ringkasan
Kāneikokala adalah dewa hiu pelindung dalam mitologi Hawaii yang dikenal menyelamatkan korban perahu karam; ikan kōkala diasosiasikan dengannya.
Kāneikokala is a protective shark god of Hawaiian mythology known for rescuing people from canoe wrecks; the kōkala fish is associated with him.
Kisah dan tradisi
Menurut mitologi Hawaii, Kāneikokala menyelamatkan orang dari perahu karam, dan ikan kōkala diasosiasikan dengannya. Ia dihitung di antara hiu-hiu leluhur (mano kumupaʻa) terpenting, bersama Ku-hai-moana, Kane-huna-moku, Kau-huhu, dan Ka-moho-aliʻi, dan dikenal sebagai aumakua hiu yang baik hati yang membawa korban kapal karam dengan selamat ke pantai. Sebuah tradisi Maui menceritakan bahwa Kāneikokala dan saudarinya mulanya manusia dan anggota kaum pendeta. Kāneikokala adalah kahuna yang mengampuni pelanggaran; setelah meninggal, keduanya menjadi ʻaumakua hiu pelindung yang membantu orang menolak kejahatan. Samuel Kamakau mencatat bahwa bila kano pecah di laut, keturunan para pemujanya dapat memanggil Kāneikokala, yang kemudian muncul dan mengantar para penyintas ke pulau asal masing-masing. Ikan kōkala keramat baginya: orang Kahiki-nui takut memakannya, menyentuh makanan yang bersentuhan dengannya, atau bahkan melintasi asap tungku tempat ikan itu dimasak. Dewa-dewa hiu leluhur seperti dia juga dapat tampil sebagai burung hantu, ikan hilu, moʻo, atau manusia. Sebuah batu yang dipuja sebagai Kāneikokala pernah disembunyikan untuk melindunginya ketika arca dewa-dewa Hawaii terancam. Sekitar 1885 seorang lelaki tua bernama Wahinenui bermimpi Kāneikokala mengeluh kedinginan dan minta digali. Batu itu sampai di Bishop Museum pada 1906 dan dipasang di lantai Hawaiian Hall; ketika hendak dipindahkan, pekerja gagal mencapai dasarnya sampai para tetua mengingatkan bahwa Kāneikokala tidak dimintai izin, sehingga batu itu tetap di tempatnya.
According to Hawaiian mythology, Kāneikokala rescued people from canoe wrecks, and the kōkala fish was associated with him. He is counted among the most important ancestral sharks (mano kumupaʻa), together with Ku-hai-moana, Kane-huna-moku, Kau-huhu and Ka-moho-aliʻi, and is known as a kindly shark aumakua who brings shipwrecked people safely to shore. In one Maui tradition, Kāneikokala and his sister began as human beings who belonged to the priestly class. Kāneikokala was a kahuna who forgave transgressions; after death both became protective shark ʻaumakua who help people resist evil. Samuel Kamakau wrote that when a canoe broke up at sea, descendants of his worshippers could summon Kāneikokala, who would appear and bring the survivors back to their home islands. The kōkala fish was sacred to him: the people of Kahiki-nui feared to eat it, to touch food that had touched it, or even to cross the smoke of an oven where it was cooking. Ancestral shark gods like him could also appear as owls, hilu fish, moʻo or humans. A stone revered as Kāneikokala was once buried for safety during a period when Hawaiian god images were under threat. In about 1885 an old man named Wahinenui dreamed that Kāneikokala complained of the cold and asked to be dug up. The stone came to the Bishop Museum in 1906 and was set into the floor of Hawaiian Hall; when staff tried to move it, workers could not reach its base until elders pointed out that Kāneikokala had not been consulted, and the stone stayed where it was.
Fakta utama
- Budaya / Culture
- Tradisi Hawaii
- Kawasan / Region
- Oseania
- Negara / Country
- United States
- Klasifikasi / Classification
- Deity
- Habitat
- Water
- Kemampuan / Abilities
- Berganti wujud
Nama lain / Alternate names
Kane-i-kokala
Tahukah kamu? / Did you know?
Menurut catatan, sebuah batu Kāneikokala di Bishop Museum tidak dapat dipindahkan sampai para tetua mengingatkan bahwa ia belum dimintai izin.
A Kāneikokala stone in the Bishop Museum reportedly could not be moved until elders pointed out that he had not been consulted.