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Word: hualalai (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pele was the most awesome deity of the people of King Kamehameha. When her anger stirred, Kamehameha's subjects quaked. She scooped up blood-red lava from the great holes of Mauna Loa, Kilauea, Hualalai, and poured it steaming across the island of Hawaii. To her Hawaiians sacrificed many a pig, many a steer, precious possessions. In caverns formed by the hardened lava, the corpses of ancient kings and the loftier chieftains were interred, with weapons, canoes, feather cloaks, as richly red and yellow as volcanic fires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Mauna Loa Erupts | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

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