11-29-2017, 10:50 AM
if the gods did exist, they are apparently cool with Christian missionaries
randomq, one of the Hawaiian royal family set out to prove your observation in 1824:
In 1824, the high chiefess Kapi’olani, despairing of the reverence and fear with which Hawaiians still worshipped Pele, made the arduous journey across the lava fields to climb the southwest slope of the crater to challenge the goddess in her lair. Kapi#699;olani... was followed along the rough path by hundreds of people who pleaded with her to return home, knowing that it was they, not the haoles and the ali’i, who would suffer the revenge of the goddess. At the edge of the crater, Kapi#699;olani defiantly ate a handful of the #699;#333;helo berries sacred to Pele, and threw stones into the volcano... Kapi#699;olani sang numerous hymns, and prayed at length... to give Pele sufficient time to display her fury. When the goddess was silent, Kapi’olani triumphantly turned her back in scorn and walked home, leaving the frightened Hawaiians to follow in astonishment.
Note: do not click link if you are offended by soft nudes painted on velvet which the author uses as an example to show "Pele seems to bring out the worst in artists." Or, if you are offended by paintings on velvet in general:
https://paradiseofthepacific.wordpress.c...her-fires/
“Facts fall from the poetic observer as ripe seeds.” -Henry Thoreau
randomq, one of the Hawaiian royal family set out to prove your observation in 1824:
In 1824, the high chiefess Kapi’olani, despairing of the reverence and fear with which Hawaiians still worshipped Pele, made the arduous journey across the lava fields to climb the southwest slope of the crater to challenge the goddess in her lair. Kapi#699;olani... was followed along the rough path by hundreds of people who pleaded with her to return home, knowing that it was they, not the haoles and the ali’i, who would suffer the revenge of the goddess. At the edge of the crater, Kapi#699;olani defiantly ate a handful of the #699;#333;helo berries sacred to Pele, and threw stones into the volcano... Kapi#699;olani sang numerous hymns, and prayed at length... to give Pele sufficient time to display her fury. When the goddess was silent, Kapi’olani triumphantly turned her back in scorn and walked home, leaving the frightened Hawaiians to follow in astonishment.
Note: do not click link if you are offended by soft nudes painted on velvet which the author uses as an example to show "Pele seems to bring out the worst in artists." Or, if you are offended by paintings on velvet in general:
https://paradiseofthepacific.wordpress.c...her-fires/
“Facts fall from the poetic observer as ripe seeds.” -Henry Thoreau
“We do this thing not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.”