text: OMG, here we go with mystification about Hawaiian concepts being untranslatable into English; incomprehensible to Western minds. 
  
  Hundreds of essays about Mauna Kea, Papahanaumokuakea, Kukaniloko, etc. being "sacred" have been written in ENGLISH, not in Hawaiian.  And the authors were born and raised with English as their first language, not Hawaiian; and with Christianity as their religion, not paganism or the ancient Hawaiian religion.  Their essays deliberately use the word "SACRED" for propaganda purposes, to appeal to the way English-speakers with Western mindsets understand that concept.
  
  So please don't try to assert untranslatability or mysticism.  People who repeatedly use the word "sacred" owe us an explanation of what they mean.  Apo said KK is more sacred than MK or PH.  He wants us to believe some places are more sacred than others.  So let's see his calculus, and name some Hawaii places that are not sacred.   Otherwise it's mere meaningless babble -- in any language.