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Kami Shrine (Drala Mountain Center) Red Feather Lakes: Amaterasu-Ōmikami (天照大神), Toyouke-Omikami, Sarutahiko-no-Ōkami, Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto (猿田彦大神・天鈿女命) Hawaii: Daijingū Temple of Hawaii (ハワイ大神宮) Honolulu (天照皇大神) Amaterasu-Sume-Ōkami [1] (天之御中主神) Amenominakanushi-no-Kami
Some koʻa or fishing shrines were built underwater. Heiau of the people varied in size. Large heiau were built by prominent people while small heiau were built by the humble. [6] US missionary Hiram Bingham described a heiau he saw on route hiking between the summits of Mauna Kea and Hualalai. Made of piled lava rock, it was a square of 100 ...
The Japanese community survived the war and moved the shrine to a temporary location in 1947. The present location was established November 1, 1958. Daijingu Temple of Hawaii is the only shrine in American territory with a recorded history of holding worship services for a Japanese war hero before the start of the Pacific War .
This is a list of Buddhist temples, monasteries, stupas, and pagodas in the United States for which there are Wikipedia articles, sorted by location. California [ edit ]
Mar. 26—It took serious coordination for students from H.P. Baldwin High School and King Kekaulike High School to lift and carry a "mikoshi, " or portable shrine, on their shoulders through the ...
It is one of the few remaining intact examples of a large luakini heiau (state level temple where human and other ritual sacrifice was performed). [3] Once the center of an important cultural complex, oral tradition attributes the construction of the temple at about 1730 AD to Kekaulike, King of Maui, who lived at Kaupo and died in 1736. [3]
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Halekiʻi-Pihana Heiau State Monument is a 10-acre (4.0 ha) park containing two important luakini heiau on a high ridge near the mouth of ʻIao Stream in Wailuku, Maui.Both Halekiʻi and Pihana were associated with important Hawaiian chiefs, have been closely studied by archaeologists, [3] and overlook the fertile Nā Wai ʻEhā ('Four Waters') region irrigated by the Wailuku, Waikapu ...