 He wrote that he derived it from the word kahuna, meaning "priests and master craftsmen who ranked near the top of the social scale".Long published a series of books on Huna starting in 1936, and founded an organization called the Huna Fellowship in 1945.There are no accepted Hawaiian sources - Malo, Kamakau, 'I'i, or Kepelino - that refer to the word Huna as a tradition of esoteric learning.