The Hawai'ian language has no verb which means "to be."

Think 'bout that, ye Indo-European ontologists. No word for "essence," no word for "being." Yet they who speak the Hawai'ian language have different distinct pronouns for possession by nature and possession by right or fiat--which seems a fairly subtle discernment of underlying self. Make of it what you will. Probably Polynesians have as little sense of the "isness" of things as your dog. Would that make them inferior to Georg Hegel? That and the fact that Polynesians are, or were, almost by definition, cannibals.