The Hawaiian Fire Goddess Pele Prefers a Cockroach-Free Zone

Travel Blog  •  Jim Benning  •  04.23.07 | 11:12 AM ET

Rangers at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island want visitors to stop leaving offerings to the fire goddess around the summit of Kilauea. The offerings—from candles and incense to papayas and pork—desecrate a sacred site, they say. What’s more, the food items attract rats and cockroaches and threaten an endangered bird. A park superintendent told the AP: “Many of these items are being left by people who are not from here. I don’t think that they do it to litter. They don’t know that it is disrespectful.”

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