Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Pele Goddess


Related Topics

In the News (Wed 30 Dec 09)

  
  Pele (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Polynesian mythology (specifically: Hawaii), Pele is a goddess of fire, lightning, dance, volcanoes and violence, a daughter of Haumea and Kane Milohai.
Pele is known for her violent temper, but also for her common visits among mortals.
Pele also loves attending social dances, and is known for great jealousy and vengeance when she doesn't get her man. Stories of Pele encounters are common campfire tales.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pele_(Goddess)   (522 words)

  
 Pele Hawaiian Goddess
Pele an earthly being is beyond time they are chilled and fuse together on the most end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end.
Pele goddess could not to convince lohi'au should indulge in kilauea iki vent located within a lot of hawaii end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end.
Pele always manages to the bristles that she thrust her lovers it in some cases lava until they could grow end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end end.
www.goddess.ws /articles/pele-hawaiian-goddess   (2892 words)

  
 Pele
Pele moved down the chain of islands in order of their geological formation, eventually landing on the Big Island's Mauna Loa, which is considered the tallest mountain on earth when measured from its base at the bottom of the ocean.
Pele, Hi'iaka and another sister, Laka, goddess of hula, were all patronesses of the dance, but Hi'iaka was said to have hatched from an egg that Pele kept warm during the long canoe ride to Hawai'i by transporting it in her armpit.
He and Pele were at odds from the beginning; she covered the land with barren lava, he brought torrents of rain to extinguish her fires and called the wild boars to dig up the land, softening it so seeds could grow.
www.blueroebuck.com /pele.htm   (1482 words)

  
 Pele
Of all the world's goddesses, Pele is one of the few still living in the belief of her people, not as metaphor but as metaphysical reality, to whom offerings are still made when volcanic eruptions threaten Hawaiian towns.
Pele, it was said, sometimes dozed in her crater, sending her spirit wandering through the islands.
Pele, meanwhile, found herself a lover of sturdier stuff in the combative hog god Kamapua'a, inventor of agriculture, whose idea of courting a goddess included all but dousing her flames with heavy rain and stampeding pigs across her craters.
www.hranajanto.com /GoddessGallery/pele.html   (979 words)

  
 Phases (dot) Org : Misc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pele is one of the few deities of any era that is still revered and embraced as an active goddess by her native peoples.
Pele's anger grew greater and her fury became evidenced in the rumbles deep in the earth and with the plumes of fl acrid smoke atop the mountain.
Pele is protective of her lands and it is thought that she has issued a curse upon those who would defile her.
www.phases.org /index.cfm?doc=detail&id_content=77   (2024 words)

  
 X. Genealogy of the Pele Family
Pele was the supreme ruler of the household.
Pele's brother, Ka-moho-alii, and her older sister, Na-maka-o-ka-hai, however, belonged to the powers of the sea.
These varieties of the name Pele, Fornander carries back also to the pre-Malay dialects of the Indian Archipelago, where pelah means "hot," belem to "burn." Then he goes back still farther to the Celtic Bel or Belen (the sun god), the Spartan Bela (the sun), and the Babylonian god Bel.
www.sacred-texts.com /pac/hlov/hlov15.htm   (1600 words)

  
 IAmAWitch.Com Portal - Pele: Volcano Goddess Hawaii   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pele was honoured in Hawaii as the essence of earthly fire and another story tells of her fiery sexuality.
Pele however was a jealous spirit, and while her sister was journeying, had convinced herself of her infidelity.
The Goddess gave birth to the Universe, and when woman was created, she was created with the specific intent to give and shape life, to nurture and to love.
www.iamawitch.com /article.php?story=20050625085342347   (2423 words)

  
 Hawaii Story: The Legend of Pele, Fire Goddess.
The legend says that Pele's father sent her away from Tahiti (another island in the Pacific) because she had a hot temper.
Pele left Tahiti in a canoe and went to Hawaii where she made many fiery volcanoes.
Pele is still known for her violent temper.
www.coedu.usf.edu /culture/Story/Story_Hawaii.htm   (667 words)

  
 The Story of Pele
Pele is well known as a volcano goddess living in the crater of Kilauea on the island of Hawaii, and for most people that's about it.
Pele's essence is fire and she dug into the island to find a firepit to live in, but was unsuccessful and went on to western Kauai.
Materializing the form of a beautiful young woman (Pele was a good shaman, able to change into many forms), she entered the dance, captured Lohiau's heart (his name means "retarded", if that has any significance) and lived with him for awhile.
www.sergeking.com /HAM/pele.html   (764 words)

  
 Pele and the Prince
There are plenty of renditions of the goddess Pele, yet few exhibit the hot, lusty side of her.
One day Pele, Goddess of the Volcano, leaves her resting place under the Kilauea Volcano and transforms herself into a mortal to be able to enjoy the human pleasures of swimming, surfing, eating fish, and playing on the beach.
Pele, recognizing her fiery goddess nature, learns that she should not love a mortal and gives her blessing on the union of Hi'iaka' and Prince Lohiau.
venusandherlover.com /Gallery/Pele.html   (1232 words)

  
 The Goddess of A Thousand Names-Pele, Goddess of Fire
Pele was expelled from the family cave because she had such firey emotions.
Her Sister the Goddess of the Sea was constantly having to cool her off.
Volcano Goddess Pele was born as a Flame In the mouth of Her Earth Mother ~ Haumea Her Grandmother is the Great Sky Goddess Papa Having searched a long time for a Home Pele finally settled at Halemaumau...
www.gotojassminesitenow.com /goddesses/pele.html   (264 words)

  
 MatriFocus, Goddess in the Spotlight, Pele
Born of the heat of the Earth, the Goddess Pele is like the fire and volcanos that she rules over.
True to her opposite nature, Pele is usually described appearing in the form of a beautiful young woman or as a haggardly old woman.
Pele’s most notorious legend is the curse she puts on anyone disturbing or stealing from her home.
www.matrifocus.com /LAM02/spotlight.htm   (613 words)

  
 Kapiolani   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
According to tradition, Pele had been driven from the sea by her sister, the irritable sea goddess, and finally settled in the very active volcano Kilauea on the Big Island, Hawaii.
Pele was a destructive goddess who could make the earth quake with a stamp of her feet.
Pele will continue to wander eastward on her impetuous adventures, but her subjects are freed from attempting to tame her volcanic fury.
www.fascinatingearth.com /Kapiolani.htm   (704 words)

  
 Pele Hawaiian Goddess of the Volcano: Mythical Realm presents people of myth and legend   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pele is a goddess of fire, lightning, dance, volcanoes and violence.
Pele, the Hawaiian (Polynesian) goddess of the volcano, was born in Honua-Mea, part of Tahiti.
Pele's oldest brother, the king of the sharks, Kamohoali'i, gave her a great canoe, upon which she and her brothers traveled far from home, over the wide expanse of the seas, sailing on this great canoe eventually to find Hawaii.
www.mythicalrealm.com /legends/pele.html   (864 words)

  
 HOLO MAI PELE- The Synopsis of the Pele Legend Through Hula
Pele's favorite is a younger sister who was born as an egg-child and kept cradled in the bosom of Pele, thus her name, Hi'iakaikapoliopele or Hi'iaka in the bosom of Pele.
It is here that Pele falls into a deep dream trance that transports her to the island of Kaua'i, where she meets and falls in love with Lohi'au.
Pele's prolonged sleep alarms her sisters who are unable to wake her.
www.paulwaters.com /hulapele.htm   (1156 words)

  
 The Goddess
She was the goddess of love and beauty, but originally was the goddess of gardens and fields.
Pele was victorious and Ailaau fled into the caverns under the earth.
The goddess Morrigan is a Celtic triple goddess comprised of the goddesses Nemain, Macha, and Badb.
www.marshall.edu /rst/goddess.htm   (1578 words)

  
 The Realm of the Goddesses of the two Oceans.
Her daughters are Pele, the Goddess of Volcanoes, and Hi'iaka, the Goddess of the Hula.
Her name means "Cloudy One," a reference, perhaps, to the clouds of steam which rise when lava meets sea, or to the clouds of soot which rise when Pele's fire burns the forests.
Pele is the daughter of the earth goddess Haumea.
inanna.virtualave.net /pazific.html   (1107 words)

  
 Samanthav   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pele through her arms in the air and told the lava to swallow up the snow goddess.
The snow goddess stomped her foot, sleding down the volcano as fast as she could, trying to keep away from the lava.
They didn't just fight because of fire and snow but because Pele was jealous she couldn't beat the snow goddess in racing down her volcano.
www.k12.hi.us /~shafter/samanthav.html   (474 words)

  
 All Things Hawaiian - Hawaiian Shirts, Dresses, Beach Wear, Gifts, Art, Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pele, goddess of volcanic fire, and Poliahu goddess of snow-capped mountains, both fell for `Ai-wohi-kupua, a chief from Kaua`i who was traveling about, seeking a beautiful young chieftess he had courted in his dreams.
Pele accepted, but made Hi`iaka promise that she would resist should the chief be attracted to her.
The being was a goddess, a goddess who sometimes appeard as a beautiful young woman, sometimes as a hobbled old crone.
www.hawaiian.com /legends.html   (962 words)

  
 PELE and POLIAHU
Pele has survived as the best-known, most-revered goddess of ancient times, but in legends, she was anything but a kind and lovable being, and she had many competitors.
Lilinoe was known as both a goddess of Haleakala on Maui and as a goddess of Mauna Kea.
Pele sent rivers of lava down the hillside, which cooled and hardened so quickly it choked the yawning chasms that spewed the molten rock and drove the streams of lava underground into Kilauea and Mauna Loa, but not before the land masses that comprise Laupahoehoe and Onomea were formed.
www.coffeetimes.com /pele2.htm   (616 words)

  
 Madame Pele: True Encounters With Hawaii's Fire Goddess: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
A few of the stories seem out of character for Pele, being downright scary (although, as one writer quotes, "Fear only living spirits; dead ones can do you no harm," and I believe that); and Pele my prank on occassion, but she never sets out to freak the refuse out of anyone.
I hope to meet Pele myself, as I'll be a student on the Big Island of Hawai'i this fall, attending the University for a few years.
Pele's form changes in response to the perspectives of those who claim to have seen her, and it is left to the reader to sort through myth, exaggeration, legend, and reality in this marvellous and exciting anthology.
www.mysqlwebhosting.biz /stuff-157306145X.html   (512 words)

  
 Pele Goddess Necklace
Pele is the Hawaiian Goddess of the volcanoes.
Pele is a goddess who allows the life force to flow through her, animating, changing, and transforming all she contacts.
Our Pele Goddess Necklace is strung with cirtine and garnet gemstone beads, glass and 14kt gold-filled beads.
sacredearthdesigns.com /Goddess/Necklaces/PeleNeck.htm   (203 words)

  
 all about Pele   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pele is a goddess and rules the volcanoes of Hawaii.
Pele's favorite sister is Hi'iaka which is the spirit of the dance.
Pele's respected elder brother is Ka-Moho-ali'i which is the shark god and the keeper of the water of life, and the one who led Pele to Hawaii.
kalama.doe.hawaii.edu /~kaleo/kppele.html   (495 words)

  
 Pele
Pele is a ravishing whimsical goddess who resides in the volcano Kilauea on the island of Hawaii.
Pele is the personification of female power, and her rages are beleived to cause the eruptions of Kilauea, and other volcanoes throughout the islands of Hawaii.
Maya was living on Oahu, when she first learned of the myth of the Goddess Pele.
www.mayagallery.com /pages/pelepages/pele.html   (126 words)

  
 Hospice Mask Project 2002 Collection
Every time Pele came to one of the Hawaiian Islands and tried to build her own fire ditch, her sister would ruin it by filling it in with water, for Pele could only be protected when the sacred fires surrounded her in her pit.
One day, Pele and her sister had a battle near Hana, Maui, where they say Pele was killed by her older, more powerful sister.
The hill where Pele died is called Ka-iwi-o-Pele, which means "The Bones of Pele." It is believed that on that hill lies the mortal remains of Pele.
www.maskproject.com /detail.cfm?MID=103&year=2002   (753 words)

  
 Philadelphia Whitemarsh Rugby Football Club Surfside 7s
Pele called forth fire from the volcanic depths, sending fire fountains after Poliahu as the terrified goddess escaped to the summit.
Pele sent rivers of lava down the hillside, which cooled and hardened so quickly it choked the yawning chasms that spewed the molten rock and drove the streams of lava underground.
Haumea is daughter to the fertility goddess Papa and mother to the goddess of fire Pele.
www.therugbyclub.org /surfside7s/04/tikigods.php   (683 words)

  
 Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park - History and Culture - Hawaiian Legends
According to early Hawaiian traditions, there was a time in the mysterious past when the air was surrounded with spiritual beings and a thin veil divided the living from the dead, the natural from the supernatural.
Pele's tears hide in the cinder outfall at Pu`u Pua`i, her golden hair sparkles between the rope folds of pahoehoe lava.
Pele's brothers, Ka-moho-ali`i, Kane-hekili, and Ke-ua-ake-po are steam, thunder and rain of fire.
www.nps.gov /havo/history/legends.htm   (645 words)

  
 Pele (Oceanic goddess)
Pele was killed, but her father restored her to life as a goddess.
Pele is the only Hawaiian Goddess to appear in the Marvel Universe, although she could still appear in the pages of Thor.
Pele seems to have used as the basis for the fictional goddess Peliali, the Kamekeri goddess who appeared in Avengers III#28-30.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/pele.htm   (647 words)

  
 Fire Goddess & Fire God Mythology
Pele is both a destructive and creative force.
Vesta is the goddess of the sacred fires of the hearth, the heart of spiritual and emotional stability in your home.
Brigid is a complex and contradictory fire goddess, a patroness of a range of practical and inspired wisdom.
www.luxotica.com /education/firegoddess.cfm   (359 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.