Volcano

By Susan Heller and Douglas Wallin

Subjects: Hawaii, mythology, Madam Pele, volcano

Description: > Blockquote Thirty miles beneath the earth's surface, white-hot molten rock coursed upward into the swollen veins of the mighty volcano. In this dark underground abyss, searing temperatures and crushing pressures melted solid rock into a molasses-like magma. The primordial melt was a mindless, inanimate thing, yet seemed to possess a life all its own, for when it flowed it had the power to crack through the very crust of the earth. > Blockquote The authors take the great disaster trend that was sweeping popular fiction and give it a twist... the occult. Where better to incorporate the mystical than in a state that won’t open a public building or begin a digging project without first invoking the blessing of the Volcano Goddess, Pele through the local kahuna or Hawaiian priest. In this book when things “happen” it could be due to volcanology... or is it Pele? The authors make it reader’s choice.