Paul H. Wrote:
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> Hans Wrote:
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> > Good point Paul and that is also the portion
> of
> > the Island of Hawaii where the big cattle
> ranches
> > are.
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> According to Google Earth, the exact location is
> 20° 6'27.9"N, 155°51'15.5"W
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> Yours,
>
> Paul H.
>
> "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
> William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a
> Nun (1951)

Hans,
By and large I agree with you. The soil in Kohala is the deepest and oldest on the island. I lived in Volcano, in the rainforest... for ten years. Was there in !983 when BOTH volcanoes erupted and magma flowed under our feet. I am well aquainted with the pristine Waip'io valley.
Everything grows rapidly all over that island. The places with lttle soil due to volcanic activity are like a hydroponic laboratory.
Doesn't attributing it to aliens diminish the lines, map or whatever it is? Someone referenced the Nazca lines, and that was a good observation. It does resemble the layout of Peruvian
cities with their textile based system of knots and lines. I've always wondered how is it that the quipu, a complex knotted cord system of recording taxation, lineages, inventories...
simply means 'knot' in Quechua. And yet there is a similar knotted cord device used by ancient Hawaiians used to record taxation, lineages and inventories. Its called a qui'ipu'u. The Hawaiian word for 'knot'.
Duncan