The Mo'olelo of Hawaii of Davida Malo

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Davida Malo's Moolelo Hawaii is the single most important description of pre-Christian Hawaiian culture. Malo, born in 1795, twenty-five years before the coming of Christianity to Hawaii, wrote about everything from traditional cosmology and accounts of ancestral chiefs to religion and government to traditional amusments. The heart of this work is a new, critically edited text of Malo's original Hawaiian, including the manuscript known as the "Carter copy", handwritten by him and two helpers in the decade before his death in 1853.