( – c. 1635; 'the male heavenly expanse') was an of the island of Hawaiʻi (c. 1605 – c. 1635). He was the sovereign of Hawaii Island. He is mentioned in the creation chant.
During the reign of Keākealanikāne, several of the more powerful of the district chiefs had assumed an attitude of comparative independence.King Kalākaua, The legends and myths of Hawaii: The fables and folk-lore of a strange people. C.L. Webster & Company, 1888.
Life Keākealanikāne was a son of Queen KaikilaniReconciling the past: two basketry kāʻai and the legendary Līloa and Lonoikamakahiki by Roger G. Rose. and Chief Kanaloakuaʻana.Culture and history in the Pacific, book by Jukka Siikala. Helsinki: Finnish Anthropological Society, 1990. He succeeded on the death of his mother in 1605. He married first his sister, Kealiʻiokalani. His second wife was Kaleimakaliʻi and his third wife was Kalaʻaiheana (daughter of Kuaʻana-a-ʻI and Kamaka-o-ʻUmi). She was also a wife of Keawekuikaʻai.
He died around 1635, having had two sons and one daughter: Keawekuikaʻai by Kaleimakaliʻi, Moanakane by Kaleiheana and Keakamahana, Queen of Hawaiʻi by Kealiʻiokalani.Hawai'i: A History of the Big Island by Robert Oaks. [S.l.] : Arcadia, ©2003. Page 16.
His granddaughter was Queen Keākealaniwahine.
References Abraham Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origin and Migrations, Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1969