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. In fact, if he were taken for a god, it would probably be Ku, the war god, what with all the cannons and muskets. Also there's the fact that the name Cook sounds more like Ku than Lono. Also arguing that Native Hawaiians would see a European and think him a god has all kinds of troubling implications, one of them being that Native Hawaiians aren't terribly smart, when in fact we know that they are very smart because, unlike the rest of us, they live in Hawaii.