07-21-2019, 10:20 AM
Hawaiian royalty ordered the end of polytheistic, historic religion. So the cultural practices were ended under the royal system in place at the time. So there was a "law" as practiced at the time. Was it "on the books"? Was there a book then?
Wikipedia: Kamehameha the Great died in 1819. In the aftermath, two of his wives, Ka`ahumanu and Ke`p`olani, then the two most powerful people in the kingdom, conferred with the kahuna nui, Hewahewa. They convinced young Liholiho, Kamehameha II, to overthrow the kapu system. They ordered the people to burn the wooden statues and tear down the rock temples.
Wikipedia: Kamehameha the Great died in 1819. In the aftermath, two of his wives, Ka`ahumanu and Ke`p`olani, then the two most powerful people in the kingdom, conferred with the kahuna nui, Hewahewa. They convinced young Liholiho, Kamehameha II, to overthrow the kapu system. They ordered the people to burn the wooden statues and tear down the rock temples.
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