Comment: Bill Boyd, on the faculty at the University of Hawaii West Oahu, posted the following comment on an article by Ian Lind on Honolulu Civil Beat  4/29/15:  "The main use of Mauna Kea prior to 1778 was as a quarry and adze manufacturer. Most of the shrines there are connected to the quarry. It is the main feature at the summit and runs seven and one half miles. ... adzes in various stages of production, chips, refuse from the production. When I first saw it I thought it was a 20 th century mining operation because of the refuse. The positioning of the shrines around the quarry indicate that the spiritual activity on Mauna Kea was related to the quarry. Workers homes, and garbage dumps (middens) are there. Indicating it was commoners doing the mining and manufacture. ... native Hawaiians placed the largest mine and adze factory in ... a sacred precinct and operated it for a thousand years."  Give it up Thomas.  The presence of small worker/household shrines does not make a place sacred.