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.

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