Hawaiian religion "Along with ancestors and gods, spirits are part of the family of Hawaiians. "There are many kinds of spirits that help for good and many that aid in evil. Some lie and deceive, and some are truthful ... It is a wonderful thing how the spirits ("ʻuhane") of the dead and the ‘angels’ ("anela") of the "ʻaumākua" can possess living persons. Nothing is impossible to god-spirits, "akua"." Kamehameha the Great died in 1819. In the aftermath, two of his wives, Kaʻahumanu and Keōpūolani, then the two most powerful people in the kingdom, conferred with the "kahuna nui", Hewahewa. They convinced
Hawaiian grammar "ka mea āna i ʻike ai" "the thing that he saw" "kāna (mea) i ʻike ai" "what he saw" "kēia ʻike ʻana āna" "this thing that he saw (purposefully)" "kēia ʻike ʻana ona" "this thing that he saw (purportedly)" where the seeing isn't much import Verbs can be analytically modified to indicate tense, aspect and mood as follows: In his "Introduction to Hawaiian Grammar," W.D. Alexander proposed that Hawaiian has a pluperfect tense as follows: However, this is debatable since "ʻē" simply means "beforehand, in advance, already". Andrews [Gram. 1.4] suggested the same thing that Alexander forwards. However, "Ua hana