Legend tells us that Pele was pursued by her ocean sister Namaka from island to island in the Hawaiian archipelago. At every stop, Namaka would rise and, in an epic battle, put Pele’s island-building volcanic fire out. And so it went, all down the chain, until Pele was able to find a home on the largest island in the chain, Hawaii Island, in the caldera of Klauea Volcano, out of reach of Namaka for now.