03-04-2017, 08:25 AM
HOTPE, wasn't there but assuming the Ali'i conducted pilgrimage by foot (like most pilgrims historically have worldwide and some still do) until the arrival of the horse....
"In 1803 Richard Cleveland, an American trader, brought the first horse to Hawai`i and presented the animal as a gift to King Kamehameha I. After seeing a riding demonstration, the king was so impressed that more horses were soon brought to the island."
Mildly informative:
http://sites.coloradocollege.edu/indigen...mauna-kea/
This next article tells the tale of Kealoha Piscatta a former Telescope employee trying to reclaim her families shrine and how employees kept moving the sacred pohaku/shrine stones which, after once found at the Hilo dump eventually disappeared altogether. Disgusting. When stones in cemetaries or shrines elsewhere are disturbed it makes national news and is considered a hate crime.
"The worship that occurs on Mauna Kea has occurred for thousands of years and has been mostly conducted in private. However, these recent events and much discussion led to a plan, “Onipa‘a Mauna Kea a Wakea,” meaning “stand fast and resist the affront to the Sacred Temple – Mauna Kea,” that was formed to reassert the right to continue to worship."
http://www.tomwhitney.net/maunakea.html
They drove part of the way and walked the rest
and it's not just about money:
"What is really at stake, however, is a conflict between two ways of knowing and being in the world. For many Native Hawaiians and other Indigenous peoples, sacredness is not merely a concept or label. It is a lived experience of oneness and connectedness with the natural and spiritual worlds. It is as common sense as believing in gravity. This experience is very much at odds with the everyday secular-humanist approach of Western thinking that emerged out of the Enlightenment (as I have discussed in a previous essay), and which sees no “magic” or “enchantment” in the world. And of course, seeing nature as inert facilitates both commercial exploitation and scientific exploration."
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonia...gXJOYlOw.9
Prior to cultural disruption via colonization, Hawaiians had specific trades passed down through blood and family and it was the job of ali'i/kahuna/ king to conduct religious practices but that doesn't make it less valid to many, remember at certain points in history one could be slaughtered for eating a royal fish or crossing the wrong mans shadow. Times change as do religious practices but that doesn't undercut the value of the religion itself.
Wikipedia doesn't do a terrible job breaking down basic hierarchy and other pertinent facts including migration patterns, population sizes prior to European colonization, lore, law/taboo/kapu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Hawaii
The only time I went up there as to spread my Mother's ashes into the wind. We levitated via automobile and grief.
Anyone who hopes to preserve cultural heritage in this world should send keiki to law school now.
"In 1803 Richard Cleveland, an American trader, brought the first horse to Hawai`i and presented the animal as a gift to King Kamehameha I. After seeing a riding demonstration, the king was so impressed that more horses were soon brought to the island."
Mildly informative:
http://sites.coloradocollege.edu/indigen...mauna-kea/
This next article tells the tale of Kealoha Piscatta a former Telescope employee trying to reclaim her families shrine and how employees kept moving the sacred pohaku/shrine stones which, after once found at the Hilo dump eventually disappeared altogether. Disgusting. When stones in cemetaries or shrines elsewhere are disturbed it makes national news and is considered a hate crime.
"The worship that occurs on Mauna Kea has occurred for thousands of years and has been mostly conducted in private. However, these recent events and much discussion led to a plan, “Onipa‘a Mauna Kea a Wakea,” meaning “stand fast and resist the affront to the Sacred Temple – Mauna Kea,” that was formed to reassert the right to continue to worship."
http://www.tomwhitney.net/maunakea.html
They drove part of the way and walked the rest
and it's not just about money:
"What is really at stake, however, is a conflict between two ways of knowing and being in the world. For many Native Hawaiians and other Indigenous peoples, sacredness is not merely a concept or label. It is a lived experience of oneness and connectedness with the natural and spiritual worlds. It is as common sense as believing in gravity. This experience is very much at odds with the everyday secular-humanist approach of Western thinking that emerged out of the Enlightenment (as I have discussed in a previous essay), and which sees no “magic” or “enchantment” in the world. And of course, seeing nature as inert facilitates both commercial exploitation and scientific exploration."
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonia...gXJOYlOw.9
Prior to cultural disruption via colonization, Hawaiians had specific trades passed down through blood and family and it was the job of ali'i/kahuna/ king to conduct religious practices but that doesn't make it less valid to many, remember at certain points in history one could be slaughtered for eating a royal fish or crossing the wrong mans shadow. Times change as do religious practices but that doesn't undercut the value of the religion itself.
Wikipedia doesn't do a terrible job breaking down basic hierarchy and other pertinent facts including migration patterns, population sizes prior to European colonization, lore, law/taboo/kapu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Hawaii
The only time I went up there as to spread my Mother's ashes into the wind. We levitated via automobile and grief.
Anyone who hopes to preserve cultural heritage in this world should send keiki to law school now.