Pele
c. 1000 CE – 2026 CEattested
Kīlauea, Hawaiʻi
- Polynesian
Volcano goddess who lives in Kīlauea's crater and made the islands by moving south-east down the chain. That is, geologically, exactly the direction the hotspot built them in.
Known for
- a migration that matches the geology
- the crater as a home
- creation by destruction
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.