Pele

What was the significance of the volcano in Hawaii?

Well, Pele is the, the volcano goddess, and she is equal parts, uh, destroyer and creator.

And there's, um, there's a cycle that happens.

Almost immediately after a volcano wipes out everything, nature gets down to the business of, of restoration, and she comes back with a vengeance, and she comes back quickly, and she comes back in bright color.

She doesn't, uh, wallow in the trauma.

She doesn't wallow in the, uh, the vengeance that Pele unleashes.

She just says it's, you know, this is part of life, and we're gonna, we're gonna get back to where we were.

We're gonna come back to really who we are.

And tonight, as your thoughts drift gently like embers cooling in the dark, let us wander through some of these ancient tales.

In the islands of Hawaii, where volcanic activity has shaped the land for millions of years, the people developed a rich and beautiful mythology centered on a goddess named Pele.

She was believed to live within the Halemaʻumaʻu crater at the summit of Kīlauea, one of the most active volcanoes on Earth.

Pele was not simply a destroyer in these stories but a powerful and complex figure, a goddess of fire, lightning, wind, and volcanoes who shaped new land even as she consumed the old.

The Hawaiian people saw in her eruptions not only danger but creation, for the lava she sent flowing into the sea would eventually cool and harden, becoming new earth upon which forests would one day grow.

Even today, many visitors to Hawaii’s volcanic parks show reverence for Pele, leaving small offerings as a gesture of respect to a tradition that stretches back centuries, long before Western science arrived to explain magma chambers and tectonic hotspots.

Across the ocean, in ancient Rome, the people looked to a different figure to explain the fire beneath their feet.

Vulcan, god of fire and the forge, was believed to work tirelessly in his workshop beneath the Earth, crafting weapons and tools for the other gods.

It's time to get our bodies moving and take a boots-on-the-ground approach to the awakening.

We'll also be making a trip to Volcano National Park to pay our respect to Pele, the goddess of fire.

We'll then journey to the water for an ocean adventure with our multi-dimensional aquatic family.

We'll gear up and head to the harbor as we set sail under the sun for an activating day on the water while we experience the Hawaiian ocean life like never before.

Enjoy Hawaii as we travel to sacred sites and connect with our Lemurian past and reactivate the land.

It's time to get our bodies moving and take a boots-on-the-ground approach to the awakening.

We'll also be making a trip to Volcano National Park to pay our respect to Pele, the goddess of fire.

We'll then journey to the water for an ocean adventure with our multi-dimensional aquatic family.

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For more information, or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org The Book of Missionary Heroes by Basil Matthews Chapter Eight: Kapi'olani, the Heroine of Hawaii Kapi'olani Date of Incident: 1824 Pele the All-Terrible, the fire goddess, will hurl her thunder and her stones and will slay you, cried the angry priests of Hawaii.

You no longer pay your sacrifices to her.

Once you gave her hundreds of hogs, but now you give nothing.

You worship the new god Jehovah.

She, the great Pele, will come upon you.

She and the husband of thunder with the fire thruster and the red fire cloud queen, they will destroy you all together.

The listening Hawaiians shuddered as they saw the shaggy priests calling down the anger of Pele.

A Brave Princess In one of the Sandwich Islands in the South Seas is a volcanic mountain with a huge lake of ever-burning fire.

This was the reputed abode of the goddess Pele and her fiery companions, the worship of whom was the central superstition of the islanders.

The young princess Kapiolani was converted to Christianity through the teaching of the missionaries.

Grieving for the ignorance and misery of her people, she resolved to visit the burning mountain of Kilauea and dare the dreaded Pele to do her worst.

There a priestess met her, threatened her with the displeasure of the goddess if she persisted, and prophesied that she and her followers would miserably perish.

In defiance of this threat she and her Christian followers went down to the edge of the burning lake and standing erect she thus spoke, Jehovah is my God.

He kindled these fires.

They were sometimes buried in their houses or in grottoes dug in the solid rock, but more frequently in natural caves where the bodies were dried and became like mummies.

Sometimes the remains were thrown into the boiling lava of a volcano as a sacrifice to Pele.

It is said no Hawaiians were ever cannibals, but in the early days, man-eaters from the south visited these islands and cooked their victims in the ovens of the natives.

Human bones made into the shape of fish hooks were thought to bring luck, especially those of high chiefs, so as only part of Captain Cook's body was found and he was considered a god, perhaps his bones were used in this way.

In all Polynesia the four great gods were Kane, father of men and founder of the world, Kanaloa, his brother, Ku, the cruel one, and Lono, to whom the New Year games were sacred.

These four were also the chief deities of Hawaiians.

Besides the great gods there was a host of inferior deities, such as the god of the sea, the god of the fishermen, the shark god, the goddess of the tapa-beaters, Laka, the goddess of song and dance, who was very popular, and Pele, the goddess of volcanoes.

Still lower in the scale were the demigods and magicians of marvelous power, like Maui, for whom the island of Maui is said to be named, who pulled New Zealand out of the sea with his magic fishhook and stole the secret of making fire from the wise mud hens.

Um, but there's, you know, these guardian systems all working together to bring forth transformation.

Yeah, that actually kind of brings me to what my next question was gonna be about volcanoes, 'cause I saw you recently were talking about Pele awakening and volcanoes erupting worldwide, and we're getting ready to go to Hawaii in April.

Mm.

And obviously Pele is protector of that land, or guardian of that land.

So w- what are you seeing right now happening with Pele and these volcanoes?

Well, Pele's like, sh- she's like the queen volcano on the planet.

Um, which island are you guys going to?

The Big Island.

It's time to get our bodies moving and take a boots-on-the-ground approach to the awakening.

We'll also be making a trip to Volcanoes National Park to pay our respect to Pele, the goddess of fire.

We'll then journey to the water for an ocean adventure with our multidimensional aquatic family.

We'll gear up and head to the harbor as we set sail under the sun for an activating day on the water while we experience the Hawaiian ocean life like never before.

Enjoy Hawaii as we travel to sacred sites and connect with our Lemurian past and reactivate the land.

It's time to get our bodies moving and take a boots-on-the-ground approach to the awakening.

We'll also be making a trip to Volcanoes National Park to pay our respect to Pele, the goddess of fire.

We'll then journey to the water for an ocean adventure with our multidimensional aquatic family.

It's time to get our bodies moving and take a boots-on-the-ground approach to the awakening.

We'll also be making a trip to Volcanoes National Park to pay our respect to Pele, the Goddess of Fire.

We'll then journey to the water for an ocean adventure with our multidimensional aquatic family.

We'll gear up and head to the harbor as we set sail under the sun for an activating day on the water while we experience the Hawaiian ocean life like never before.

Enjoy Hawaii as we travel to sacred sites and connect with our Lemurian past and reactivate the land.

It's time to get our bodies moving and take a boots-on-the-ground approach to the awakening.

We'll also be making a trip to Volcano National Park to pay our respect to Pele, the goddess of fire.

We'll then journey to the water for an ocean adventure with our multidimensional aquatic family.