Kingship and Sacrifice: Ritual and Society in Ancient Hawaii by Valerio Valeri

Kingship and Sacrifice: Ritual and Society in Ancient Hawaii

Valerio Valeri with Paula Wissing (Translator)

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nonfiction religion
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Valeri presents an overview of Hawaiian religious culture, in which hierarchies of social beings and their actions are mirrored by the cosmological hierarchy of the gods. As the sacrifice is performed, the worshipper is incorporated into the god o...

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