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Odes to Pele, the Hawaiian Goddess of Fire and Volcanoes

The Pele Series - Odes to Pele, the Hawaiian Goddess of Fire and Volcanoes

Pele, also known as Ka wahine `ai honua or the woman who devours the land, is goddess of creation and destruction in Hawaiʻi. She sends fountains of fire into the air and rivers of molten lava across the land. Burning everything in her fiery pathway, her ever-changing geographies enable new life to emerge
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