Haumea (38/100)

Haumea — the Hawaiian goddess of fertility, childbirth, and wild nature, ancestor of the Hawaiian people and one of the most important deities in the Hawaiian pantheon. Mayumi Oda's engagement with Hawaiian spiritual traditions is concentrated in her Haumea composition: here she brings her decades of feminist Buddhist iconography into direct contact with indigenous Pacific goddess tradition, creating a visual synthesis between her Japanese printmaking skills and the spiritual heritage of her adopted Hawaiian home. Haumea's power over fertility and natural abundance aligns her with the goddess figures Oda has depicted throughout her career — the sacred feminine as the source of life, abundance, and the creative energy that sustains the world.