In The Seven Dawns of the Aumakua, author Moke Kupihea discovers his Hawaiian spiritual tradition. As a young boy he seeks out his kupuna, the old men of the mountains, who become his kahu--his ancestral guardians--and teach him to understand that the world of ancestral voices still speaks, if only in a whisper, and that learning to hear these voices is the key for returning Hawaii to its proud spiritual path.