The Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi of Davida Malo Vol. 1 & Vol. 2

The Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi of Davida Malo Volume 1: Ka ʻŌlelo Kumu Written by David Malo, edited by Jefferey Lyon Jeffrey Lyon is a professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Hardback: $68.00 Published: May 2020 University of Hawaii Press 640 pages | 296 b&w illustrations   The Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi of Davida Malo Volume 2: Hawaiian Text and Translation  Written by David Malo, edited and translated by Charles Langlas and Jeffrey Lyon, with a new biographical essay by Nolan Arista  Hardback: $62.00 Published: May 2020 University of Hawaii Press 416 pages | 5 b&w illustrations       About the Book by University of Hawaiʻi Press Davida Malo’s Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi is the single most important description of pre-Christian Hawaiian culture. Malo, born in 1795, twenty-five years before the coming of Christianity to Hawaiʻi, wrote about everything from traditional cosmology and accounts of ancestral chiefs to religion and government to traditional amusements. The