Matt Hanson’s Brain Archive
During our driving tour around the south of Kona we did some Kayaking, snorkeling and saw a few nice sites. One of them was the City of Refuge, an old Holy Hawaiin place. The Hawaiin religion was quite harsh in it’s penalties - death was the most common form of punishment. There was one possibility to prevent death. The criminal would have to make it to a place of Refuge, and if he stayed there for a period of time his crimes would be forgotten. The City of Refuge was one such place.
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