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Mauna Kea on Hawai'i Island, the sacred mountain of Native Hawaiians, revered as an ancestor and as the meeting place of earth and sky. It remains central to Native Hawaiian practice.
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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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