ACTIVE VOLCANO In The Canary Islands 🇪🇸 | Exploring Mount Tiede |

Before the 1496 Spanish colonization of Tenerife, the native Guanches referred to a powerful figure living in the volcano named Guayota. It was a sacred mountain for the aboriginal Guanches, so it was considered a mythological mountain, as Mount Olympus was to the ancient Greeks. During an eruption, it was customary for the Guanches to light bonfires to scare off Guayota. The Guanches believed the mountain to be the place that housed the forces of evil with the most evil figure being Guayota.

Guayota shares features similar to other powerful deities inhabiting volcanoes, such as the goddess Pele of Hawaiian mythology, who lives in the volcano Kilauea and is regarded by the native Hawaiians as responsible for the volcano's eruptions. The same was true for the ancient Greeks and Romans, who believed that Vulcano and Mount Etna were chimneys of the foundry of the fire god Hephaestus.

In 1492, when Christopher Columbus arrived at the island of Tenerife, his crew claimed to see flames coming from the island's highest mountain.

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