TMT - Contested Case Hearing Status - Hilo

[pahoated]

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Originally posted by MarkP
I am saying that requiring me to view every bone as sacred when traditional Hawaiians could not have is not going to win me over.

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You keep demonstrating you have no inclination to learn about the Hawaiian culture and want to stick with your white-is-right opinion.

The bones and meat were considered to contain mana, spirit power is about the closest English can get. The highest regarded enemies killed in battle were boiled until the meat fell off the bones, some meat was eaten to take the enemies mana, and the clean bones were passed to the ali'i, kahuna and koa, the warriors. By never being buried, the enemy would spend eternity in pulekakoli. This is very similar to the US and MIA bodies, the families seeking to put their family member to eternal rest. In the Hawaiian culture, those properly buried would go to pulekakoli but the kahuna could bid the 'alala to carry the ha to the top of Mauna Kea to return to the aina of Kane. This was only for ali'i, kahuna and koa. The makaaina'na go to the aina of Wakea or Milu for the pilau.

Desecration of the grave site means the 'alala can't find the ha and it stays in pulekakoli.

What is going to be your reaction to go to a funeral of a relative, then as you are leaving, one of the "guests" is digging up the corpse to take the ring, watch, and shoes from the corpse? Not give a frick, right?

*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*