Wakea is assiciated with the taro root. You may be looking for taro root recipes. Here's the story.
If you look back into the history and legends of Hawaii and Hawaiians, you find the rootstock of all life is embodied in the taro plant. Hawaiian tradition is that "the taro or kalo plant originated when the son of Wakea (Sky Father) and his daughter Ho'ohoukalani was born lifeless and deformed, like a gnarled root of a plant. The grieving parents buried the baby, but the next day a taro plant sprouted from the grave, which Wakea named Haloa. When the second son of Wakea was born they named him Haloa also, because he was the younger brother of Taro, from whom all Hawaiians descended." Taro is well-known throughout Polynesia, Asia, Indonesia and India as one of the oldest known cultivated crops.
2006-12-25 03:34:43
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answered by Smurfetta 7
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Not as a food, no... from what I recall, Wakea was a Hawaiian god, right? Is the food Wakea some kind of special treat from Hawaii?
2006-12-18 09:14:27
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answered by Ali 5
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