Temple Sites in Kahikinui, Maui, Hawaiian Islands: their orientations decoded

• Autores: Patrick V. Kirch
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 78, Nº 299, 2004, págs. 102-114
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Hawaiian temple sites of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries have diverse orientations previously thought to be random. Using precise measurements and nineteenth-century native Hawaiian sources, the author shows that the temples cluster into groups whose orientation was deliberate and likely to relate to a particular god.