Crossword-Solution: KAHUNA 6 letters, 38 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

She could skin the ordinary _kahuna lapaau_” (medicine man) “when it came to praying to Lonopuha and Koleamoku; read dreams and visions and signs and omens and indigestions to beat the band; make the practitioners under the medicine god, Maiola, look like thirty cents; pull off a _pule hee_ incantation that would make them dizzy; and she claimed to a practice of _kahuna hoenoho_, which is modern spiritism, second to none.

Again the King interposed delay, and said, "Wait until my wise kahuna Napuaikamao comes; if his opinion agrees with yours, then, indeed, let the man be put to death; but if he is wiser than you, the man shall live.

She was submitted to the usual ceremonies of purification by the local priest, after which she was led to the prepared lanai, when kahuna, maid, parents, and relatives had a joyous reunion.

This trio were called by the old people the gods of the canoe-making priests--"_Na akua aumakua o ka poe kahuna kalai waa._" While Ku-ula and his wife were living at Leho-ula he devoted all his time to his chosen vocation, fishing.

This went on for some time, till the frightened and harassed people in desperation went to consult a shark kahuna, as the ravages of the man-eating shark had put a practical taboo on all kinds of fishing.