Hawaiians had a VERY structured society and a set of rules that 
MUST be
obeyed or one risked death or some worse punishment...eyeball 
gouging,
torture etc..The upper classes got better food and after many 
generations
of superior victuals and intermarriage they became significantly 
larger and
stronger.  These upper classes ruled by force and superior warfare 
skills.
One of the special areas of knowledge that the Alii or upper classes
concentrated upon was the skills and technology of war.  They 
passed these
skills down to their men children.  Women were disfranchised and 
although
the bloodlines were passed thru the women they didn't even get to 
eat at
the same mat as men.

The Hawaiian mythology got mixed in with western mythology when the 
missionryscame to bring their word to the PAGANS.  As a result even 
today there are
many misconceptions as to what the real beliefs were"pre-contact"as 
they
say.   For example, heres a funny story that illustrates that fact;
 When
Fordandder was interviewing Hawaiians last century he asked who 
built"that"
structure and who built "those" walls etc.  Tiring of his repeated 
queries
the chief answered "oh it was the mana-hune"(litterally translated 
it means
the "people with little mana or power") Fordenander seized on this 
response
and said "little People", how big were they?  were they small? etc 
etc....
ignorant xtian missionaries. pleasures right under the noses of 
theiribeThe


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