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Behold the Home of Pelehonuamea                        Volcanoes National Park, The Big Island of Hawaii

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We hadn’t been to the big Island of Hawaii for many years but since our nephew Jack had never been and wanted to see the famous volcanoes (and of course I wanted to hear from them myself) this was our first stop (after snorkeling, thus the previous passage, ‘The Coral’) on our Hawaiian trip.

The first thing I have to say is that Volcanoes National Park is amazing. Not only can one view the open and steaming caldera of Kilauea from a huge viewing window in the Volcano House Inn…at night it actually comes alive, glowing beautiful and red with activity. Here one can actually walk out among the many vents still spewing out scalding steam from the earth below.

The docents at the park are amazing and the two-guided tours we took answered many questions about the origin of the volcanoes (there are 5 volcanoes on this one island alone) and about the many recent eruptions. They also mentioned that the third youngest and active volcano, Hualalai, was way over due to erupt and was expected to do so within the next 100 years! A nice thing to envision when you’re resting your head at night on top of 5 volcanoes, one of which continues to erupts at any given moment. It’s here that one can almost feel the soul of Mother Nature… close up and personal and at Her most powerful.

As some of you may have read from my other passages, I’ve heard from a few volcanoes before, namely Diamond Head on Oahu and Mount Etna and Vesuvius in Italy. Even so, none of my encounters were as close up and as personal as what I was seeing here. 

At Volcanoes National Park, if you’re willing to hike the 5 miles over rough lava to get there, you can actually see the recent lava flow and feel the heat from the most recent eruption. Since I was fine with just watching from the fiery overlook at the Jaggar Museum up the road, I instead went to work asking the volcanoes if they had any wisdom they wished to share. Like the volcanoes before them, Kilauea was more than ready to take up my offer, and like every Nature Spirit, in its own unique way.

Later, having been more and more drawn lately to the Beings of legend that were instrumental in creating our world (and still are according to Pele), I wondered if I might get an interview from the great Fire Goddess herself…Pele. Revered as one of, if not the greatest deity here in The Islands, I wanted to know what She felt about the myths and legends that surrounded her and others like her… The Ancients Ones that made up the foundation of our belief systems passed down over the centuries. Were there really such things as ancient Gods and Goddess and were the stories of great feats and miraculous occurrences really true?

As you’ll read in the second passage…according to her they are. Pele tells us that anything is possible if one believes it to be true. What is really amazing is that this great Fire Goddess is still seen in this day and age, not only here in The Islands but throughout the world during volcanic eruptions. Just imagination you say…I think not. In the second passage Pele explains who She is, what She does and why She still remains the Scared Goddess of The Islands and a legacy to our world.

Passage One: The Volcano Kilauea speaks

You come to me today with questions, with dreams, with a reality awakened now to legend and a new world. This is a place of renewal, long honored by those that looked for what everyone searches for…the reality of being, of self, of beginnings. Here in the islands many come to enjoy all that Nature provides. This is good. Even so, here and only here can one truly understand creation in a form not seen in other places.

The Earth, as one sees it, consists of all that one sees around them…the trees, the plants, the air, and the sea… the stars. But it’s more. For beneath the feet of those that search is the answer, if indeed that’s something one wants to know.

As the volcanoes of legend belonging to the goddess Pele or Pelehonuamea, this place is sacred to those that still live among The Islands. It is, or was in the past, a mystery as to why the land would erupt, bringing with the flow what the people needed to survive. Times change, but the power that once caused panic is now accepted as a means of growth to a land always searching for renewal.

Of survive you ask, when you only see a volcano as a destructive force.

In truth that may be so but only if one doesn’t respect what’s provided to those that live here. The land, the air, the environment, they all benefit from what we, the volcanoes, provide.

Deep inside this planet a great fire burns, the fire of creation. Just as every species recreates its own, this volcano is no different. After all, life is nothing more than creating, isn’t that right? In this way we all becomes what we must to be of service, to benefit others and to become more. Birth is a natural thing; something each Being knows will bring about growth. It’s the same for me, Kilauea, birthing with each eruption a new outgrowth; new land and a new being of soil, air and water to bring about change.

One seldom thinks about volcanoes like this, but we also benefit the all. That is why we continue bringing with each eruption, new life from below to achieve a future above. To build a land where humans like you can grow and learn and be a part of all that surrounds them. This world is full of wonders and we, as such, accept this as our part of the continuing process of renewal, of growth and of legend to the great Goddess who still lives within us.

I am Kilauea and we are the volcanoes of Hawaii. We honor She who rules us still.

A word from the great Fire Goddess… Pelehonuamea or ‘Pele’

Do I exist?

Do you?

All things are relative, isn’t that so? If you’re reading this then unlike many others you are open to the idea. So we will continue.

Gods and Goddesses, ghosts and visions, fairies and ancient beings such as I have always been the subject of conjecture in your society. Did they exist? Do we exist and if so for what purpose? All deities have meaning in that they bring what one isn’t conscience of into the realm of understanding. When one doesn’t grasp the situation, more so in the past than in present time, then one needs something that will explain, that will clarify, that will bring meaning to that purpose. If we were not ‘available’ as… the Beings of all creation, wisdom of ancient powers and lost knowledge…then how could one explain, in their mind, why they exist and who created them?

The Gods and Goddesses’ of old, like myself Pele… bringer of light from a world of darkness and creator of land by fire… taught the people of The Islands that things they could not understand, could not see physically, existed. For some this is relative to their beliefs because they can only understand things when they’re shown to them. That was the way it was so long ago.

Yet this planet, and the center of my universe as The Goddess of Fire, is more than just a symbol of how this world was created. It is also a way for the past to become a pathway to the future.

All cultures must have their myths, their legends to bring them forward into the present. And although many seem unrealistic, they are truly the beliefs of a people that have survived throughout history because of them. It’s true that many have forgotten the old ways, science and forward thinking erasing all that happened in the past. And yet the world and these islands are full of things that time and humankind cannot understand. For to exist in legend, to bring about change and encourage growth is the purpose that Ones like me serve.  We are humanities relatives, brought to kind by what we have done and continue to do. Don’t dismiss us as ancient beings because our purpose in this day and age is no longer reliable. No, we are everything because we represent She, who rules us all. She is the Mother who guides the hand of Nature and the fate of all that live within this world.

The steam may rise and the fire still burn but the heart of this place, of these islands, is the heart of why I, Pele, remain. All beliefs are sacred when they bring about change, when they arouse more of what is needed for this planet to survive. I am legend, but all things are when they dwell in the heart of those that believe. Come to me when my fires rage and give thanks to She…Pele, the light bringer, the land that She brings and the love of a people that exist still within the spirit of Aloha.

Forever, or until the Great Mother ceases to exist, I will remain Pelehonuamea, the bringer of light to a world renewed.

May the volcanoes, in no matter what country, alive or extinct, make us all realize that Nature alone is more powerful than any entity on Earth.  Hopefully after you’ve read what they have to say, you can understand more fully why they exist and what their purpose was and still is to our world.

Here in The Islands, especially on the Big Island, the continuing eruptions are increasing the size of the island, so much so that they say that someday one or more of them could combine to become one larger island.  Things become less threatening when one understands their purpose and not more so than what we’ve learned from my visit to this wonderful place. I hope that one day all of you may get the opportunity to visit a volcano. It doesn’t have alive or even in Hawaii, it can be anywhere…even where it once existed. When you do I ask that you say thank you for all it, and its counterparts, have provided our planets over the eons they has existed on this plane. Because without the land that the volcanoes have given us, many of us would still be swimming in the ocean.

Later that night after watching the fire rage in the Caldera, so near and yet worlds away, I couldn’t help but feel the awe that the people of Hawaii still feel for their Goddess Pele… She who has brought them so much over the years. 

May her legend never die and may the Goddess Pelehonuamea continue to provide the spirit of Aloha that welcomes all of us to the paradise of these islands.

Mahalo…Thanks, Cheri