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Natives attributed the eruption to Pele, Hawaiian goddess of Volcanoes. Although Hawaiian mythology relates that Pele long ago agreed never to let the lava-flow menace Hilo, the natives, not altogether confident that the goddess would keep her bargain, sought to appease her last week with offerings of fruit and berries...
...more modern, though still semi-mythological explanation of Kilauea's outburst linked Pele with Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar, volcano-legist. Dr. Jaggar has spent many years studying Kilauea, and has resided in an observatory...
...Hoopuloans had three days' notice to evacuate. When the convulsions of the mountain sent the slowly creeping river of slag down upon them, they pushed off from shore in their outrigger canoes, abandoning their efforts to placate the goddess Pele* with offerings of burned pig, herbs, liquor and prayers. Passengers on a steamship had a gorgeous sight of a white-hot avalanche plunging into the sea with a roar like a host of locomotives belching blood-colored smoke and towering geysers of steam...
...natives refuse to admit that Pele, goddess of volcanoes, will take human life, although she may destroy human habitation. The legend says that, jilted by a mortal lover, she slew him and then was so mortified she made a vow never to do such a thing again. Herds of cattle that have climbed naturally to a knoll or ridge to escape lava, are said to have been "spared" by Pele, who sent her wrath around them. A man whose legs were clipped off by a hot boulder was said, after his demise, to have "stumbled into a crevice...