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11/8/2005
8:51:42 pm EST
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Mysterious Hawaiian Tiki Stir Debate
Author: Jennifer Viegas Source: Discovery News
Title: MYSTERIOUS HAWAIIAN TIKI STIR DEBATE
More than 20 rare, carved wooden figures dating to the early 19th century recently were discovered in a cave at North Kona, Hawaii, according to several newspaper reports from the Big Island.
The objects are believed to be tiki, which native Hawaiians refer to as "ki'i," or carved images of gods thought to house spirits.
Construction crew workers accidentally breached the lava tube cave while preparing for a 450-acre residential and golf development at Kohanaiki. News reports said state officials were brought in to further investigate the cave, which now is sealed and under 24-hour security watch.
Lava tube caves are caves that form from fluid lava that has hardened. Similar to limestone caves, some lava tube caves in Hawaii go 50 feet into the ground.
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| What Saddens Me The Most... | Nov 9th. at 10:49:54 am EST
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LD Wolverine (Edmonton, Ontario) - Email Me
is "Construction crew workers accidentally breached the lava tube cave while preparing for a 450-acre residential and golf development at Kohanaiki." 450 Acres...whew. All being bulldozed for the sake of progress. Its just sad. Not that I want to stop progress but there has to be a better way. Actually I just bought a new house, but we did our research and found that our development was being built on an old farmers corn field that had gone to sand and was not functional anymore. I was sad of that but at least we were doing the minimal damage in my mind to have our needs met.
My retirement dream is to buy a couple hundred acres of land, build my little house on a little corner and let the rest grow wild and just see what happens!! No fences, no signs, all welcome to visit Mother Nature as long as they are respectful. Perhaps its a pipe dream but its a nice one.
Peace out
Linda
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| Great PR Opportunity | Nov 9th. at 8:14:54 am EST
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ParrotPilot (Ocean Springs, Mississippi) - Email Me
What a great public relations opportunity for this development firm!
They should make a big public spectacle of determining which group of indigenous people are most closely related to these specific carvings and hold a large, very public, ceremony to return these carvings to the groups.
How good would that look in the eyes of the Hawaiian people?
That would be a true win-win.
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