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
Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library is an online, digital library of Native Hawaiian reference material for cultural and Hawaiian language studies. The services are free and are provided and maintained by "Kahaka ‘Ula O Ke’elikolani" College of Hawaiian Language at the University of Hawaii at Hilo and "Ka Waihona Puke 'Ōiwi" Native Hawaiian Library at Alu Like. The site is available worldwide, containing Hawaiian language newspapers, books and other resources with mirror sites in both English and Native Hawaiian. Western studies of Hawaii tend to ignore the Hawaiian language newspapers. These digital archives serve to