Sahlins in his scholarship “Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities” attempted to explain culture using past events and that historians should do the same. He also attempted to demonstrate that culture is not static but continually changes and develops. Sahlins used the culture of Hawaii and shows how interaction with Europe (particularly Great Britain) changed and helped develop their culture. Shalin argued that the Hawaiians' response to Captain Cook's arrival in their territory, such as treating him like a God and offering their women as sexual objects and other factors that led to Cook's murder, was part of Hawaiian culture. Sahlins' understanding of culture ties into anthropology. Sahlins in his work explained that culture includes language, traditions and ideals learned through a structure. Shalins wants historians to understand culture by examining the past, and he used Hawaiian culture to do so. Sahlins uses Hawaiian culture as a means to explain that past actions develop culture. For example, Hawaiians worshiped many mythical gods, and Hawaiians believed that their culture developed through these gods. The Shalin believe that the past experiences of the Hawaiian people are essentially their culture. Shalins explained in his work that the past of Hawaiian culture is always with them (Shalins 8). According to Shalin, culture is important in explaining the past because those events are ordered by culture. In explaining the past, historians must pay attention to culture because understanding culture is what leads to the formation of new classes and economic and social changes. The reference to an earlier phase of Hawaiian history helped them preserve their values ​​(Sahlins 65). For example, Sahlins' arguments... at the heart of the paper... are perhaps even more convincing to an anthropologist. His argument about continuous changes in culture is once again compelling because he uses Hawaiian culture to explain this phenomenon. Hawaiian culture underwent some dynamic changes after Dio Lono was sacrificed. There were social, economic and other changes, as explained above. His arguments are convincing and open the doors to structural analyzes of the history and historical development of cultures. Sahlins' work provides an in-depth analysis of Hawaiian culture and how it has developed through past events. Sahlins was able to demonstrate how paying close attention to culture can be useful when studying the past. With a detailed account of Captain Cook's importance in Hawaiian culture, cultural interactions with the English, and how this led to dynamic changes in Hawaiian culture.