08-23-2019, 02:03 PM
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Originally posted by Amrita
On a visit many years ago to Imiloa I heard legends of Lake Waiau adjacent to the summit which I have visited several times. There, for me, a kama aina haole was an extreme sense of quiescence and spirituality. I could intuit the presence of the goddesses of snow and ice. I get that it is a sacred place. Below is a link to some of that lore. I personally do not feel that telescopes to search the universe are desecration to the sacredness of the summit. After all one could make the case that the Polynesians who first traversed the vast expanse of unknown ocean to reach these sacred islands were quintessential astronomers and that they would revere exploration of their guiding stars and the universe, but also I comprehend that celestial entities are more accessible in such places. http://www.mauna-a-wakea.info/maunakea/A...waiau.html
So you got the silly willies, so should a multinational telescope be denied?
Cheers,
Kirt