03-08-2017, 05:04 PM
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Originally posted by galileo
New post - The TMT Contested Case Winds Down
http://darkerview.com/wordpress/?p=21222#more-21222
He continues with a very eloquent and insightful description:
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It is a subculture within the community, a subculture that has become so steeped in a mythical past, a re-created Hawaiian religion that blends the old traditional ways, a good helping of modern new age mysticism, and a notable element of nationalism. It is this distorted idealism that leads the opposition to astronomy upon Mauna Kea.
Richard Ha corroborates this "re-creation" in an interesting post on his blog.
http://www.hamakuasprings.com/2016/02/is...ly-sacred/
"My Pop helped to bulldoze the road to the summit of Mauna Kea back in about 1964, and when I think back to that time, none of my Hawaiian relatives at Maku‘u ever said one word against it. No one ever even hinted it was against religious and cultural practices. I don’t remember our relatives ever telling us that the mountain was forbidden territory."
"There was no mention of anyone up on the mountain protesting when Pop was building the road, because there wasn’t anybody protesting. There was never any feeling he was doing anything against the culture. There was no discussion about it, period."
When Deborah Ward was cross-examined, she was asked why there were no religious objections when the first telescopes were built, and she gave an answer that seemed fishy to me. She basically said at that point in time, religious issues were kept private.
There's a link to a video of Peter Apo discussing his views on Maunakea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JErWIxAZFAA
2:42
"The TMT to me represents probably the greatest opportunity - cultural opportunity, religious opportunity that we will ever have to do the one thing that is at the center of every cultural movement - that is search for the ancestors."