sacred place

"It's a sacred place for us really," says Olivia Cusack.

Native Hawaiians have strongly objected to adding an enormous telescope to the many on Manua Kea, the TMT’s preferred site, regarding it as a further desecration of a sacred place.

“Your guess is as good as mine. Anyway, many folks found themselves here. You’re in a sacred place, chile.”

He understood it now as a sacred place.

Because of their environmental significance, the salt flats and their surrounding waters have gained a sacred place for Indigenous cultures, an essential part of native celebrations the entire month of August.