Mauna Kea
Mauna Kea is the highest point in all of Hawaii and its appearance changes from one day to another from heavy rains to bright sunlit mornings to the winter times that bring snow and wind. Mauna Kea has always been interested in the mountain in photos and for its evening clarity of astronomy. It has been commonly featured in media and a place of worship to a Hawaiian deity and is close to the hearts of many people and is apart of the spiritual existence for many years. At the bottom there is dirt that surrounds the area and is on the Big Island of Hawaii and is active volcano and is immediately noticeable at the sunrise where a silhouette is seen from afar. Much of the volcano is buried and is actually underwater and its peaks are high and are very much abovewater. It is truly a mountain that is both underwater and abovewater that truly connects it to the land to the sea. Herb Kawainui Kane & Hawaiian Goddess Poli'ahu The mountain had many artworks and designs based on it, such as "Poliahu Snow Goddess" where other people could be introduced by way of artwork both the goddess and Mauna Kea. Herb Kane was an artist so it of course is different and simplified in an artistic way, but what it does is send the essence of the mountain through softeness of the scenery, and the face shows the deity as a ancient sacred place. Pieces like this would have people asking about other man made pieces such as structures, artworks, and stories of the mountain itself. Poli'ahu, the goddess of the mountain is said to dwell at Mauna Kea dressed in her white "Kikepa kapa cloak" as well as her sisters: Waiau, the caretaker goddess, Kahoupokane the Goddess of Hualālai Mountain, Lilinoe the goddess of Haleakala Mountain. The sisters lived on the mountains were said to have stood in the cloud-topped summits in a constant fight of ice versus fire. While Poli'ahu reaches the land by mountain and the water from volcano it is within. While arch rival Pele the goddess of Valcanos is shaper of the lands by the way of the flow of lava that does down to the sea. Hawaiians believe Kilauea is the opposite to Mauna Kea in its dwelling being where the family of fire gods reside including Pele. Waters of Mauna Kea at Waiau Sister Waiau (kupua.entity) is the keeper of the hidden waters that come from under Mauna Kea which holds streams of water that have man made wells through Waimea area, Mauna Kea area, and Waiau area. It is interlinked to the water of the island of those areas. Mountain of Mauna Kea The Mountain of Mauna Kea is Hawaii's most knonw mountain and is seen as a greatly sacred place. It is the place of worship and chant with organized devotion where gods would reside and was previously forbidden other than chiefs, priests, and its land stewards. Groups of hikers from all around of Hawaii would climb the mountain as a sort of pilgrimage and worship the sacred site and tourism thrived after the "TMT telescope protest" where people would seek it as a place of enlightenment. They did this through the importance of Aina-based learning of Hawaiian training through the outdoor climbing the mountain and experience the connection to the mountainous site itself. Hiking the Mauna Kea trail to the summit 6 miles (10 km) and takes about 8 hours and starts at 9,200 ft (2800 m) up to the summit at 13,800 ft (4,200 m). The summit was considered the realm of the gods and in ancient times was kapu (forbidden) to all but the highest chiefs and priests. In the time of Hawaiian Kingdom Ali'i (royalty) would climb up to the top of the actual summit. The last royal visitor was Queen Emma in 1881 who went with her companions to the top and went doen to rejuvenate herself in the sacred Lake called Waiau. Many had a longing in connection back to a larger movement, and in consideration for the eldars more than one way of worship would be made. This would be done by constructing "Ahu Alters" that were being built for those who could not reach a higher point of the mountain and for a human-made alter that represented a connection to the mountain itself at a specific site.
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