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 is understood, and can be omitted. The typical detailed word order is given by the following, with most items optional: If the sentence has a negative mood and the subject is a pronoun, word order is subject–verb–object following the negator "ʻaʻole", as in: Another exception is when an emphatic adverbial phrase begins the sentence. In this case, a pronoun subject precedes the verb. Yes-no questions can be unmarked and expressed by intonation, or they can be marked by placing "anei" after the leading word of the sentence. Examples of question-word questions include: See also Hawaiian Language: Syntax and other resources.