mlprahl Posted April 21, 2007 #1 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Interesting read that I just saw on cnn. http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/21/hawaii.volcano.ap/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suebee Posted April 21, 2007 #2 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Not surprising....they dont allow you to build stone towers to Pele either. That was a very popular activity and we even did it when we were there, but I guess now they dont like people doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZbeachboy Posted April 23, 2007 #3 Share Posted April 23, 2007 That is interesting. I would have never thought about doing that. To me it would just have been something I knew about Hawaiian history. Seems the Pele thing would be ok. No rotting food there and that is what seems to be the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerseyjk Posted April 23, 2007 #4 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Not surprising....they dont allow you to build stone towers to Pele either. They make that pretty clear ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spikesgirl Posted April 23, 2007 #5 Share Posted April 23, 2007 The Hawaiian people have been leaving tributes to Pele at Halemaumau for centuries and I don't think it will stop any time soon. While I can understand the concerns of the park rangers, I think someone could make a case of freedom to worship. Perhaps an entire pig is bit much, this will not stop me from making my annual offering to the Godesss. Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suebee Posted April 23, 2007 #6 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Those signs must be fairly new...they werent there when we were there. At least the areas we were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sceptic Posted April 23, 2007 #7 Share Posted April 23, 2007 The offerings to Pele don't include rock piles, to the best of my knowledge. Typically they are ti leaves, some forms of alchohol, and a few other such items (supposedly money too). I think one reason they don't want you to build a rock pile is that these piles, called cairns, are also used as trail markers in many places in HVNP. If it's a foggy day with lousy visibility you basically travel from cairn to cairn to stay on trail (I know this from much personal experience). If you get to a cairn and see three or four piles in various directions, which is the trail, and which is some fun sculpture a visitor created? And one thing about the CNN report. It's pretty ignorant, actually. It's not "Mount Kilauea." Just Kilauea. And the offerings aren't on the summit. They're at Halemaumau, which is the fire pit inside Kilauea's caldera. The actual summit is somewhere else on the cliffs above, between volcano house and the USGS volcano observatory. Sigh. What else do you expect from the national press? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerseyjk Posted April 24, 2007 #8 Share Posted April 24, 2007 Those signs must be fairly new...they werent there when we were there. At least the areas we were. To be fair, the only place I saw that sign (and just had to snap a photo) was at Halema'uma'u crater on the path to the observation area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suebee Posted April 25, 2007 #9 Share Posted April 25, 2007 That's good to know...we stayed up there 4 full days so I was racking my brain! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daWoods Posted April 25, 2007 #10 Share Posted April 25, 2007 To be fair, the only place I saw that sign (and just had to snap a photo) was at Halema'uma'u crater on the path to the observation area.:I saw that sign in February. It wasn't there 2 years ago when we visited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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