the origin of the hawii island

Hawaii

Figure 1 . Illustration of the goddess Pely Figure 2 . Illustration the goddess Pely

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The Legend

The original inhabitants of islands in the South Pacific considered their temperamental volcanoes to be the handiwork of gods and goddesses According to Hawaiian legend , Pely , the goddess of fire , arrived in Hawaii armed with a digging stick , after fleeing from an angry

sister Namakaokahai , who lived somewhere to the south . Pely was seeking fire and dug "pits (craters ) in succession on the islands of Kauai , Oahu Molokai , and Maui . At Maui , Namakaokahai caught up with Pely , killed her , and scattered her bones in the sea , where they now appear as a fan of small islands offshore . Pely returned , however , as an eruptive cloud over the still-active volcanoes on the big island of Hawaii there , she dug a pit , the volcanic crater known as Kilauea , and finally found her fire . Pely decided to live in Kilauea , and has done so ever since Unfortunately , she angers easily , and vents her rage by spitting out floods of hot lava to engulf those who have disd her . To placate Pely , islanders throw sacrifices into the crater . More than once , an advancing flow of lava has stopped just short of a vulnerable village soon after a sacrifice

Like many legends of the land , the story of Pely seeks to explain unusual and dramatic landforms in an anthropomorphic way , a way that makes sense in the context of a culture . Significantly , the sequence of events in Pely 's journey accurately matches the sequence in which the islands of Hawaii formed . And Pely 's name has now become part of geologic terminology . We use the terms "Pely 's tears " for teardrop-shaped pieces of made from drops of lava in a lava fountain and "Pely 's hair " for hair-like strands of volcanic glass Figure 3 . Pely 's tears

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Figure 1 . A map of Hawaii

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Hawaii is one of the few places on Earth where you can walk right up to an active volcanic firepit . It boasts the world 's most voluminous lava flows , but rarely poses danger to man

The Hawaiian Islands are at the southeastern end of a chain of volcanoes that began to form more than 70 million years ago . The Hawaiian Islands are volcanic in origin . Many of these volcanoes formed islands that have subsided and eroded beneath sea level , and some of the old volcanoes probably never reached sea level . Each Hawaiian island is made of one or more volcanoes...