Hawaii religion and mythology

  • Period: 500 to 1300

    Tahitians and other Pacific islanders landed in Hawai'i

  • 1200

    Pāʻao, a preist or cheif arrived from Tahiti

  • Captain James Cook made the first known European contact with the ancient Hawaiians

  • Period: to

    Hawaiian sacrifice, travels around the world

    from Jacques Arago's account of Freycinet's
  • Kahuna Kūpaʻiulu of Maui described counter-sorcery ritual

    to heal someone ill from hoʻopiʻopiʻo, another’s evil thoughts.