08-30-2024, 08:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-30-2024, 08:08 PM by HereOnThePrimalEdge.)
Maybe, just maybe, to work in the quarry was a gifted position
Maybe. Do you have any evidence of that?
Otherwise the reality is it was cold even in summer, mining anything by hand is laborious backbreaking work, laborers were separated from family for probably months at a time. Family was important to Hawaiians.
The food was probably not that great by the time it was dragged up the mountain, although admittedly the natural refrigeration probably helped. Maybe it was even bland?
a gifted position, highly exalted, open to only a select few, and revered throughout society..
I would point out that the only comparable work at that elevation throughout Hawaiian history is the astronomical research conducted in the present day. Can you think of anything else that has occurred for an extended period on Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa, or Haleakala? Other than destruction of the native sandalwood forest?
Maybe. Do you have any evidence of that?
Otherwise the reality is it was cold even in summer, mining anything by hand is laborious backbreaking work, laborers were separated from family for probably months at a time. Family was important to Hawaiians.
The food was probably not that great by the time it was dragged up the mountain, although admittedly the natural refrigeration probably helped. Maybe it was even bland?
a gifted position, highly exalted, open to only a select few, and revered throughout society..
I would point out that the only comparable work at that elevation throughout Hawaiian history is the astronomical research conducted in the present day. Can you think of anything else that has occurred for an extended period on Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa, or Haleakala? Other than destruction of the native sandalwood forest?