09-17-2016, 06:36 AM
Just thinking here on the whole burial site issue that keeps coming up.
With the reality of what the ancient Hawaiians did with the Kapu system; putting tens of thousands of people to death for various offenses over the centuries, and assuming that those people that were put to death were not exactly put into the normal and proper burial sites that were used at the time... are there not going to be bones of people all over the place? It was a brutal society for centuries. What is the difference between a true burial site for the revered and a place of murder (punishment?) where the body was just left to decompose or thrown into the nearest hole in the lava?
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On a side note, the EIS for the TMT site did not find evidence of burials/bones or temples, etc., where it is to be built. Maybe the remoteness of that site compared to the rest of the summit area simply didn't interest them?
With the reality of what the ancient Hawaiians did with the Kapu system; putting tens of thousands of people to death for various offenses over the centuries, and assuming that those people that were put to death were not exactly put into the normal and proper burial sites that were used at the time... are there not going to be bones of people all over the place? It was a brutal society for centuries. What is the difference between a true burial site for the revered and a place of murder (punishment?) where the body was just left to decompose or thrown into the nearest hole in the lava?
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On a side note, the EIS for the TMT site did not find evidence of burials/bones or temples, etc., where it is to be built. Maybe the remoteness of that site compared to the rest of the summit area simply didn't interest them?