Ukupanipo
Sign in to saveIn Hawaiian mythology, Ukupanipo is a shark god who controls the amount of fish close enough for the fisherman to catch. He occasionally adopts a human child who gains the power to transform into a shark, but when in human form has a mark like a shark's mouth under their shoulder blades.
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
1 sectionsContents
- Notes
In Hawaiian mythology, Ukupanipo is a shark god who controls the amount of fish close enough for the fisherman to catch. He occasionally adopts a human child who gains the power to transform into a shark, but when in human form has a mark like a shark's mouth under their shoulder blades.
== Notes ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ukupanipo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.