I was on top of the mountain on one of my trips to Maui a few years ago. It may be named as a House of the Sun, but when we were there, (go to this page on the SLAS Site: http://www.slas.us/gallery/profiles/mikew/1-Haleakala%20Maui%20Sunset.jpg ) the temperature was in the 30's and a cold wind kept bringing in the fog - the antithesis of what one would expect would be the environment for Helios's dwelling. I was so thankful that we had read the travel guides prior to arriving in Hawaii as we were prepared with our parkas, while all the rest of the tourists were hugging their arms to their bodies while shaking all over, trying to keep warm. --- On Mon, 1/5/09, Rob Ratkowski Photography <ratkwski@hawaii.rr.com> wrote: From: Rob Ratkowski Photography <ratkwski@hawaii.rr.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Haleakala To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Monday, January 5, 2009, 10:05 AM Jim Taken from the cultural overview handbook required for all that work on Haleakala "Known in ancient times as Ala Hea Ka La (path to call the sun), the Hawaiian name Haleakala (House of the Sun), is now synonymous with the entire shield of the East Maui volcano. Early Hawaiians, however, applied the name only to the summit area, the site where the demigod Maui snared the sun and forced it to slow its journey across the sky." In the Hawaiian way of thinking, "Haleakala is our ancestor, you never went up to the top without some specific purpose. The remnants of Pele exist in her forms on the summit of Haleakala, so you would never move or take anything away from the summit because that is an encroachment on the realm of Pele, as the physical creator of these islands." This AM 43º 7% humidity winds 32mph http://banana.ifa.hawaii.edu/Weather/current.html Aloha and a hui ho Rob _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://gallery.utahastronomy.com Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com