03-05-2017, 05:07 AM
OK...This stuff is taught in early grade school here and luckily someone close to me attended class that day.
Each Island is split up into pie shaped wedges that run mauka to makai and then subdivided again into smaller wedges lower down the mountains. The people stewarding the land management/law(kapu) and higher ground were Ali'i and high ground is known to be burial grounds as well as for performing different sacred rituals...asking a living Kumu for details would be my preferred method because it's a source of connection. Different ohana (family) and halau (hula group) would be associated with the different moku or land divisions, naturally.
http://www.hawaiihistory.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ig.page&CategoryID=299
http://www.ahamoku.org/wp-content/upload...ressed.png
http://www.mauna-a-wakea.info/maunakea/F4_burials.html
The Piscotta Pohaku (sacred stone) could have started off as a family land marker or gravestone and lost the details of it's meaning during decline periods. It could have been part of law to place those markers. In any event it clearly has meaning to Mrs Piscotta. Pohakuloa means 'long sacred stone' implying that that was where you put your sacred stones. TMT propo's better hope they don't find bones over there above Waimea.
TK, Back on Island?
I was saying a Kumu might have more info on what rituals would be performed (and where) because different moku or areas of the mokupuni were designated for different uses and stewarded by different families under an Ali'i. The articles and map above seems to support that. That new section of Hwy 200 is structurally designed for moving big things up and down that big mountain; a visual clue. (Even if TMT isn't being built up there a bargaining chip for building new was taking down at least one old telescope.) The state and military support TMT, the economy needs anything, Standing Rock; political/legal trend clues. Prove me wrong, please. You may have a dog in this fight but it's just a debate for me.
Each Island is split up into pie shaped wedges that run mauka to makai and then subdivided again into smaller wedges lower down the mountains. The people stewarding the land management/law(kapu) and higher ground were Ali'i and high ground is known to be burial grounds as well as for performing different sacred rituals...asking a living Kumu for details would be my preferred method because it's a source of connection. Different ohana (family) and halau (hula group) would be associated with the different moku or land divisions, naturally.
http://www.hawaiihistory.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ig.page&CategoryID=299
http://www.ahamoku.org/wp-content/upload...ressed.png
http://www.mauna-a-wakea.info/maunakea/F4_burials.html
The Piscotta Pohaku (sacred stone) could have started off as a family land marker or gravestone and lost the details of it's meaning during decline periods. It could have been part of law to place those markers. In any event it clearly has meaning to Mrs Piscotta. Pohakuloa means 'long sacred stone' implying that that was where you put your sacred stones. TMT propo's better hope they don't find bones over there above Waimea.
TK, Back on Island?
I was saying a Kumu might have more info on what rituals would be performed (and where) because different moku or areas of the mokupuni were designated for different uses and stewarded by different families under an Ali'i. The articles and map above seems to support that. That new section of Hwy 200 is structurally designed for moving big things up and down that big mountain; a visual clue. (Even if TMT isn't being built up there a bargaining chip for building new was taking down at least one old telescope.) The state and military support TMT, the economy needs anything, Standing Rock; political/legal trend clues. Prove me wrong, please. You may have a dog in this fight but it's just a debate for me.