TMT - Contested Case Hearing Status - Hilo

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

In fact, only passing mention of Mauna Kea in a handful of articles... have been found in all the hundreds of written texts. The stories often highlight the difficulties involved in travel by horseback-no mention of the sacredness of the mountain can be found! This lack of historical support for the "sacredness" of the mountain is in direct contradiction to the claims of the protesters.

This is what I've found as well. Little has been written about Mauna Kea as a sacred mountain, there is almost nothing to support the claims made that it is a burial ground, or a site of worship. I've posted a request on Punaweb asking supporters and defenders to cite any evidence of these assertions, but no one has been able to do so.

I believe Protectors and their supporters hope no one will question them on this topic, or if someone does they can feign offense that anyone would dare doubt their descriptions of an ancient connection between Mauna Kea, their religion and culture. I believe there is a connection, but not in the way they allege it to be.

I don't mind if they'd like to create their own religion around a sacred Mauna Kea, but they should say that's what they're doing, instead of inventing their own personal alternate history.

"Only fear real things, such as minds full of delusions." -Last Aphorisms