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made several arguments against the development including that Mauna Kea was a sacred mountain to Native
Hawaiians where many deities lived and that the cinder cone being proposed was holy in Hawaiian tradition as a burial site for a demi-god. The group raised several other concerns such as
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Hawaiian cultural organizations have objected to the observatories on Mauna Kea as sacrilegious, spoiling their god's home and destroying the shrines of
Hawaiian families. MKAH was founded by Kealoha Pisciotta, a former systems specialist for the joint British-Dutch-Canadian
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deference to native traditions. In the early 1970s, managers of Mauna Kea did not seem to pay much attention to complaints of Native
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