Seeing 2010 (#22)

For your consideration: easily the oddest edifice I encountered on the island of Hawaii a few years ago. I would've taken several more studied images of this looming, mute, altar-like tool but for the the constraints of being a passenger in the lead sedan of a car caravan.

There was nothing remotely like this structure within sight. Its function was a mystery to me, but its scale and skyward orientation suggests that it may have played a role in keeping the Earth in its proper place in Ptolemaic schemas of our Solar System.

Hawaiian Gear (Geocentric Ruin), #8207

© 2010 James W. Murray, all rights reserved.

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Details: August 28, 2007; Canon 20D; f/10 @ 1/250 sec; ±0 EV; ISO 100; 22mm.

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