What kind of people can get away with boiling up Captain Cook and serving him? They don want to return to all their old ways, do they?
Actually, only his liver was eaten, and that in the belief that his “mana” or spiritual strength (not exactly but it’s lost in translation) was stored. It was a acknowledgement of his authority as a white chief. The Hawaiians were not cannibals. What we are dealing with is not religious freedom but the restoration of land that has been stolen. Besides, at the time of Captain Cook, they were under the dominion of the priests of Pa’ao, a religious system abandoned by the Hawaiians before the arrival of the missionaries.(see Hawaiian History).
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