This article contains some Hawaiian religious folklore concerning the goddess of the fire/volcano PELE. She is closely aligned with the elemental spirit entity from ancient Jewish midrashic legends about the Younger LILITH who is said to be a beautiful young maiden from the waist up and a raging searing fire from the waist down. She is the partner to Ashmodai who is also an elemental chief and aligns with the physical planet Pluto connected to the depths of the Earth and both volcanic and seismic activity.This helps us understand the profound significance of the fact that the eruption began on a Jewish holiday, Lag B'Omer that is celebrated with huge raging bonfires.
The Moon, called the Levanah in Hebrew, the “white one”,
governs all the fluidic veins of the divine Earth globe including these rivers
of fire proceeding out of the Hawaiian volcano and into the ocean. The synchronous
eruption of this American volcano on the same day as a little known but highly
significant Jewish holiday is a trumpet of the Earth herself telling us that we
have entered another stage of the Techiyas Hametim, a global soul awakening
called by the ancients the revival of the dead. The eruption evokes both beauty
and power, majesty and danger.
For Earth whisperers mostly found among indigenous peoples, the
Earth is a being who with her five levels of soul, is an embodiment of the
divine realm and she is singing a song to humanity. For Jews and others who understand
how the elemental angels called the Chayoth, the sacred living creatures move
like a whirlwind through the elements and “worlds” of the Tree that is our
creation we may gain some precious insight. For this eruption event began on the thirty
third day(lamed-gimmel-33=Lag) of the forty nine day period between Passover/Pesach
and Shavuoth/Pentecost when we count the omer/grain offering. Most who count the omer count down through the
seven midot-emotional qualities of the sephirot/spheres pairing them with each
other but there is also a simultaneous upward count as this is hinted at in the
primer of Kabbalah, The Sepher Yetzirah chapter one.
Verse 6: “These ten
Sephiroth (Sephirot the ten attributes that God created through which he/she
can manifest) which are ineffable, whose appearance is like scintillating
(to throw off sparks; flash) flames,
have no end but are infinite. The word of God is in them as they burst forth,
and as they return; they obey the divine command, rushing along as a whirlwind,
returning to prostrate (to put or throw flat with the face down ) themselves at
his/her throne.
7. These ten
Sephiroth which are, moreover, ineffable, have their end even as their
beginning, conjoined, even as is a flame to a burning coal: for our God is
superlative in his/her unity, and does not permit any second one. And who canst
thou place before the only one”
Counting down from Chesed/love to Malchut/sovereignty we
come to Hod Shebe’Hod on the bottom of the left column of the popular form of tree
of the spheres. This is also known as the feminine side of the tree which aligns with qualities of the laylah/night and the Chosehyk, the sacred darkness. However counting up we arrive at Tipheret Shebe Tipheret right
smack in the center of the central column of the tree on the same 33rd
day. And in this is a hint as to why this Lag B’Omer is the only holiday that
celebrates the Yahrzeit, the death anniversary of any ancient Jewish sage, the
author of the Sepher HaZohar Rabbi Shimeon Bar Yochai(RASHBI). For this is
where the most upper waters of Chesed/love and Chokmah/wisdom meet up with the fire of beauty and
balance/Tiphereth in the center of the holy tree. This meeting is as an
awakening whirlwind of creative power within the soul both Earth soul and
individual self, an awakening of loving passion, the “below and above” as sung
in the Shir HaShirim, the Song of Songs.
8:6 “Set
me as a seal upon thy heart(Tiphereth/self), as a seal upon thine arm(Hod/body);
for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave; the flashes
thereof are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yah.”
Below is an article from the Atlantic which contains some religious folklore of the goddess of the volcanic fire who is also known as the shaper of the islands
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/05/madame-peles-grip-on-hawaii/560102/
Of all the Hawaiian deities, Pele is perhaps the most formidable. The goddess of fire (and volcanoes and lightning and wind), she has a reputation for being as fickle as she is fervent. From her home in the
Halemaʻumaʻu crater at the summit of the Kīlauea volcano, the legend goes, Madame Pele determines when and where the lava flows. She is the goddess who “
shapes the sacred land.”
The devastation has been severe: As of Thursday, according to aerial surveys, the Kīlauea volcano had destroyed three dozen structures—most of them homes in and around a lush, relatively elevated community known as Leilani Estates. Around 2,000 people have been forced to evacuate, many knowing they wouldn’t be able to return to their homes for some time—if ever.
