Akua Hawaii: Hawaiian Gods and Their Stories

Akua Hawaii: Hawaiian Gods and Their StoriesHawaiian gods possess wondrous abilities, with humble mortals invoking their names to call upon their superhuman powers for help and guidance. Many of the gods have multiple forms and are able to dwell in any of the different regions that combine to form the Hawaiian archipelago. Their moolelo are branded upon the sacred places where they accomplished their glorious feats. They are the phenomenal spectacles of the natural environmentfresh water,

He puke ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi wale nō kēia

bladder problems

The first half of the book is composed in Hawaiian with translation into English in the second half

Written by an authority on Hawaiʻi's beaches and water safety

while in California

Kirch relates his many adventures while doing fieldwork on remote islands

By the mid-1850s literate and committed Hawaiians were sailing to far reaches of the Pacific to join worldwide missionary endeavors

Mary Braffet

The information in each of these sections is supported by passages in Hawaiian

aching muscles

and laugh while doing it

With The Bowl of Light