For Solins, Cook's death fits perfectly with the ritual structure of Hawaiian culture. Thanks, Thought Bubble. So the big problem with this interpretation, which admittedly sounds pretty cool, is that we don't have much evidence that Hawaiians would have actually seen Cook this way. We find a really interesting opposing view from Gnanath Obeyesikere, and I will remind you that mispronunciation is my thing. Sorry, Gnanath. Anyway, he criticized Solins' interpretation of Cook's death for looking a lot more like European myth than like a Hawaiian ritual. First off, Obeyesikere argues that Cook himself would not easily be confused with Lono.