| "The solar associations of chieftainship range from the chiefs'
descent from Wakea, personification of the sun at the zenith, to
nineteenth-century praise songs, such as 'For you, O glittering Sun' (laa
'Oe, e ka La e 'Alohi nei) written for the King Kalaakaua. Of course, I am not speaking of a solar cult; it is more a question of the sun as the king than the king as the sun." (Islands of History) |