![]() Someone was doing a protocol and chanting the sun up that morning. We “went to the summit, right before cracked the horizon. One of the participants of the Hui Ho’olohe, the “Listening Group” whose findings were published in Envision Mauna Kea report, recalls ascending the summit with his son. Other Hawaiians see Mauna Kea as more spiritual than sacred. ![]() Jonathan Osorio, Dean of the University of Hawaii’s Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge. To them, the upper regions are known as wao akua, “place of the gods.” “Even with the conversion of many of our people to Christianity and to modern forms of government and social interaction, there's always been at least a small group of people who went to the mountain and considered to the place sacred,” said Dr. ![]() Some still ascend its peak to perform the sacred rituals of their ancestors. Because of its role as the progenitor of the Hawaiian peoples, many native Hawaiians see Mauna Kea as sacred, and the thought of bringing any industry onto sacred ground is not only distasteful but demonstrates historically endemic disregard.
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