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
Japanese counter word 幾晩？ "iku-ban?" "how many nights?" and 幾日も行っていた "iku-nichi mo itte ita" "I was gone for many days." Counters are similar in function to the word "pieces" in "two pieces of paper" or "cups" in "two cups of coffee". However, they cannot take non-numerical modifiers. So while "two pieces of paper" translates fairly directly as 紙二枚 "kami ni-mai" (lit. "paper two flat-count"), "two green pieces of paper" must be rendered as 緑の紙二枚 "midori no kami ni-mai", akin to "two pieces of green paper". Just as in English, different counters can be used to convey different types of quantity. In English, one