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Map may point to kings burial site

Written by DeadGirl
Friday, 17 June 2005
Associated Press KAILUA, KONA, Hawai'i Ã¢â‚¬â€ An expert on Hawaiian culture and history has asked the state Burials Council to look into his discovery of an old map that may indicate the burial place of King Kamehameha the Great. Clarence Medeiros Jr. said that during a visit to the Survey Division of the state Department of Accounting and General Services, he found an August 1819 survey map of "Kairua Bay" that includes a feature labeled "Tamehamehas Tomb." Kamehameha died in Kailua, Kona, on May 8, 1819. The mapmaker listed the coordinates of the site, and Medeiros said that location is "Thurston Point," on Kailua Bay in Kailua, Kona. A portion of the property was dredged in the 1950s to make a channel from the sea to create lagoon out of what have been labeled on some maps as "royal fishponds." To protect the channel, property owner and former Advertiser publisher Lorrin P. Thurston also constructed a seawall and breakwater, which encroached on state property. The structures became an issue last year when the new owner, Big Surf Trust, received permission from the state to purchase the public land. The burial site may have been destroyed when the channel was built, Medeiros said. "I'm just wondering if he might still be out there under something." DeSoto Brown, collections manager for the Bishop Museum, said there is no way to confirm or deny that the map is accurate. But he said he has never heard of a tomb for Kamehameha and that his rank was so great that it is more likely his bones were hidden in a secret spot. "I cannot imagine he would have been buried in a public place," Brown said. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Jun/11/ln/ln01p.html

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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“Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be impison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world.”

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