Snowy Mauna Kea's summit - The House of Poliahu Hawaiian Snow Goddess

Polynesians encountered the goddess of snow, Poliahu for the first time they have reached Iceland from Big Hawaii sometime in the fourth century AD, and saw the snowy peaks of the great volcanoes. The daughter of the sky god Kane, Poliahu is said to have created the green, the tropical beauty of the Hamakua Coast on the Big Iceland, his exuberance, cold streams and waterfalls of a perfect playground for them to practice their antics preferred to spend time with humanMen.

Although he regularly visited Haleakala on Maui and Mauna Loa on the Big Iceland, Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the "White Mountain" is rightly regarded as the home of Poliahu. The survivor leading the myth of the goddess is Poliahu past the volcano goddess Pele, the Hawaiian he'eholua sledding sport. "Pele was so angry at them, they attacked with Poliahu flows of lava. Poliahu retaliated by snowstorms up the freezing ofmolten rock exists. The goddesses fought to a standstill, even if the transport is always burning Pele defeat. Even now, as it dominated in Kilauea, Pele ago Poliahu rule on Mauna Kea, is still to fight with Pele on Mauna Loa Poliahu said.

Mythology aside, Mauna Kea Summit is an exciting and fascinating. A dormant shield volcano, which has not erupted for 4,500 years, Mauna Kea, 13,803 feet high, the highest point of the state of Hawaii.From the top, about 33 476 feet above its base on the sea floor Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain on Earth. All this mass has grown this huge geological mass of a mountain in less than a million years-the blink of an eye. Glaciers covered the summit of Mauna Kea 200000-13000 three years and left many glacial features and some debris near the glacier to the summit. In addition, the summit area Home Lake Waiau, the highest lake in the sevenththe United States. Also on the summit block, the largest and most advanced collection of international observatory can be found everywhere on Earth.

I like to visit the summit of Mauna Kea, if you spend the day, the six miles of hiking trail up or go down the road for the 10-minute walk to the summit of Pu'u Weiku. I spend many hours watching the clouds, listening to the silence, enjoy the view across the island. I'm not sure what distinguishes me fromsolidification tropical Kona, again and again to the summit of Mauna Kea, and perhaps the thrill of the clear, clean air, or the possibility of snow-play, solitude, perhaps unconsciously, I hope to see one of the legendary cat-fight between Pele and Poliahu, fire and ice.

Secretly, deep down, I suspect that to be honest I only hope, yet another in a long, long line of men, human Poliahu at, ahem cavort with selected!