Editing James Cook (section)

===Return to Hawaii===
Cook returned to Hawaii in 1779. The ships sailed throughout the archipelago for eight weeks, surveying and trading.{{sfn|Beaglehole|1974|pp=638-648}}{{efn|To protect the Hawaiian women from sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), Cook issued orders to his crew: "In order to prevent as much as possible the communicating this fatal disease to a set of innocent people" no woman was to board either of the ships, and any crew member who had an STD was prohibited from engaging in sex with the women.{{sfn|Beaglehole|1974|pp=638-639}}
}} After stops in [[Maui]] and [[Kauai]], Cook made landfall at [[Kealakekua Bay]] on [[Hawaii (island)|Hawai'i Island]], the largest island in the Hawaiian archipelago.{{sfn|Beaglehole|1974|pp=648-650}} 

On the large island, Cook met with the Hawaiian king [[Kalaniʻōpuʻu]], who treated Cook with respect, and invited him to participate in several ceremonies. The king and Cook exchanged gifts, and the king presented Cook with a [[ʻAhu ʻula|ʻahuʻula]] (feathered cloak).{{sfn|Beaglehole|1974|pp=650-654}} Some members of Cook's crew concluded that the Hawaiian's considered Cook a deity, and that interpretation (specifically, that Cook was considered to be the Polynesian god [[Lono]]) has been endorsed by some academics.{{sfn|Beaglehole|1974|pp=657-660}}{{sfn|Hough|1994|pp=335-340}}{{sfn|Sahlins|1985}}{{sfn|Thomas|2003|pp=382-389,395-400}}{{efn|
Cook's arrival coincided with the ''[[Makahiki]]'', a Hawaiian [[harvest festival]] of worship for the Polynesian god [[Lono]]. Some scholars assert that the form of HMS ''Resolution''{{snd}}specifically, the mast formation, sails and rigging{{snd}}resembled certain significant artefacts that formed part of the season of worship.{{sfn|Thomas|2003|pp=382-389,395-400}}{{sfn|Collingridge|2003|p=404}}{{sfn|Obeyesekere|1992|p=61}} Some academics state that Cook's clockwise route around the island of Hawaii before making landfall resembled the processions that took place in a clockwise direction around the island during the Lono festivals. It has been argued (most extensively by [[Marshall Sahlins]]) that such coincidences were the reasons for Cook's initial [[Apotheosis|deification]] as Lono by some Hawaiians.{{sfn|Sahlins|1985}}
}} Other scholars, including [[Gananath Obeyesekere]], assert that the Hawaiians did not consider Cook to be a deity.<ref>{{harvnb|Obeyesekere|1992|pp=197-250}}.</ref>{{efn|The debate about whether or not Cook was considered a deity is sometimes called the [[Sahlins–Obeyesekere debate]].}}