Ancient pyramid in Kapoho

[missydog1]

Thanks for your historical perspective, Carol! [] That adds a lot.

da kine, another interesting story. There are still birthing stones at the very large ruins at Mo'okini heiau in North Kohala. These stones ahave concave surfaces and were actually used by the ali'i women for the act of giving birth. It's a very literal name. Kamehameha I was born that way, IIRC.

[missydog1]

Here's a photo I took of one of the birthing stones.
http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2175917...2048GCmxcI

Here's a pic of the current signage warning people not to remove rocks or stones.
http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2066395...2048meSEVj

For some reason, some of the uploaded photos have gone blank, had a better close-up of the birthing stone.

The relics in North and South Kohala have been so well respected, that was why I felt surprise about Kapoho. However, the Kohala heiau are associated with Kamehameha, and the Kapoho pyramid was apparently astronomical. I can see how people would reverence the history of the very recent monarch, whereas the astronomical station had probably been in disuse for a very long time. Just a theory.

[taropatch]

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Originally posted by Peter Epperson

Most of the quotes that I found were from an article in the Tribune Herald by Kent Warshauer. We miss Kent. He had found articles from The Pacific Commercial Advertiser from 1871 and 1875 that provided most of the observations. I kept his article but I remember that he had written another on the same topic. All of his articles have been compiled into a book that costs $250! Maybe the library has it.
He also points out that there are actually two cones there that merged; Puu Kuki'i and Puu Kukae which he points out, politely, means excrement hill. I seem to recall that the first haoles there were two sailors who spotted the pyramid from their ship in 1822. They later went to shore and hiked out to it and had similar descriptions to the others.

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I browsed through the entire topical contents of Kent's book, "Riddle of the Relic" which contains his articles dated 2001-2006 and found no articles that discuss the Kuki'i. I read a couple of the Kapoho articles (Kumukahi lighthouse and Vacationland) to see if there was any mention of the pyramid but there was none. That is not to say the topic could not be embedded in one of the other articles. Was the article you kept a part of the Sugar Mill Spy series?

[missydog1]

Just to repost the online reference I found:
http://tinyurl.com/3eogmco

I made the Google Books link a tiny url because it was so long. Because it is a Google Book, they've made it so one can't copy the text, but the link goes to the right page.

It's a very interesting chapter on astronomy among the Oceanic cultures and includes artifacts on other Hawaiian islands.

It does not discuss the decay and salvage. It's astronomical in focus.

PS. It's an $83 book, but the information on Hawai'i can be read online.

"let the music keep our spirits high
And let the buildings keep our children dry
Let creation reveal its secrets by and by ~ Before the Deluge, Jackson Browne

[Peter Epperson]

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I browsed through the entire topical contents of Kent's book, "Riddle of the Relic" which contains his articles dated 2001-2006 and found no articles that discuss the Kuki'i. I read a couple of the Kapoho articles (Kumukahi lighthouse and Vacationland) to see if there was any mention of the pyramid but there was none. That is not to say the topic could not be embedded in one of the other articles. Was the article you kept a part of the Sugar Mill Spy series?

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The article was from Oct. 27, 2002 titled "Pele's Temper Formed Twin Cinder Cones"