The largest temple complex in Hawaii and Polynesia is a huge, stone, multi-terraced structure that was built on a cliff summit at the ocean's edge on Maui. Begun in the 13th century, expansion of this complex on a huge scale was done in the 16th Century by King Pi'ilani who unified all of Maui and then established his royal court on the east end of the island.
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The Australian aboriginal Dreamtime is a timeless mythic 'world' that exists for all eternity. In the Dreamtime, the Ancestors walked the earth, and created everything - plants, animals, geology and landscape. Many rituals in Australian aboriginal culture allow the tribe to contact the Dreamtime, to once again 'live in it' and be renewed, if only for a short time.
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
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