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 language formerly known as "uina" ('snap'). For examples of the okina, consider the Hawaiian words "Hawaii" and "Oahu" (often simply "Hawaii" and "Oahu" in English orthography). In Hawaiian, these words can be pronounced and , and can be written with an okina where the glottal stop is pronounced. Elbert & Pukui's "Hawaiian Grammar" says "The glottal stop, ‘, is made by closing the glottis or space between the vocal cords, the result being something like the hiatus in English "oh-oh"." As early as 1823, the missionaries made some limited use of the apostrophe to represent the glottal stop, but they did