Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Sometimes the kings were attended by a man sprung from the gods, and this happy mortal alone had the right to follow, puris naturalibus, his august master. The people said, in speaking of him, He akua ia, he is a god. Kapa, a kind of large sheet in which the chiefs dressed themselves, was made of the soaked and beaten bark of several shrubs, such as the wauke, olona, hau, oloa.
Kahuna makani, doctors of winds; Kahuna hoonohonoho akua, who caused the gods to descend on the sick; Kahuna aumakua, doctors of diseases of the old; Kahuna Pele, doctors or priests of Pele, goddess of volcanoes. All the doctors of the second kind are still found in the islands, where they have remained idolaters, although they have been for the most part baptized.
He, with the powerful aid of the Queen Dowager Kaahumanu, abolished tabu, and his subjects cast away their idols, and fell into indifferent scepticism, the high priest Hewahewa being the first to light the iconoclastic torch, having previously given his opinion that there was only one great akua or spirit in lani, the heavens.
Word Of The Day