Hawai`i (the Big Island)
When Pele was defeated on Maui, her spirit drifted south to the island of Hawai`i, also called the Big Island.
A fire god was already living there. His name was `Aila`au and he lived in Kilauea. Pele wanted to go visit and possibly stay with `Aila`au. When Pele got to the top of Kilauea, he was nowhere in sight. The reason he wasn't there was that when Pele arrived on the shores of the Big Island, `Aila`au knew who Pele was. He had heard stories of her and he was overpowered with fear. He ran away and got lost forever in a forest.
Since `Aila`au was gone, Pele decided to make her home in Kilauea Volcano, in a large pit called Halema`uma`u. Here she dug deep to make her fires and settled in with her brothers and sisters who had traveled with her.
Pele still resides there today and makes her presence known through Kilauea's ongoing eruptions.
