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What Defines This GroupingHeiau, the walled or terraced temple platforms, together with wahi pana, storied places, and the wao akua, the upland zone classed as belonging to the gods and entered sparingly and under protocol. Significance is set by a classification of the land as much as by anything built on it. 2 Status
Status TodayPublic heiau worship ended with the ai noa of 1819, when the kapu system was abolished from within Hawaiian society rather than by missionaries. Heiau have since been restored and rededicated, and traditional protocol is used at public occasions. 2 History
Era of Modern RevivalFrom the 1970s, with the Hawaiian cultural renaissance 2 Learn More
Native Hawaiian sacred sites
This small group holds a sacred site of Native Hawaiian tradition, a heiau (temple) or sacred place of the indigenous Hawaiian religion, dedicated to the gods and bound to the sacred landscape of the islands.
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Sites grouped for the Native Hawaiian tradition.
Source Hawaiian MythologyMartha Warren Beckwith
Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Native Land and Foreign Desires: Pehea La E Pono Ai?
Lilikala Kame'eleihiwa, Bishop Museum Press, 1992on the classification of land and the akuaView the Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
Hawaiian Mythology
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