title: Nuakea (deity)
text: # Nuakea (deity)
  
  In Hawaiian mythology, Nuakea is a beneficent goddess of milk and lactation.
  
  This name was also a title for a wet nurse of royal prince, according to David Malo.
  
  Nuakea was appealed to staunch the flow of milk in the mother's breasts.
  
  ## Euhemerism
  
  There was a chiefess named after the goddess—Nuʻakea, wife of Keʻoloʻewa, chief of Molokai.
  
  Martha Warren Beckwith suggested that Nuʻakea was deified.
  
  According to the myth, Nuʻakea was a goddess who came to Earth and married mortal chief Keʻoloʻewa, but it is known that historical Nuʻakea was born on Oahu.
  
  