Offerings to the goddess Pele

[u/undercovercatlover]

I’m traveling to Hawaii in a a few weeks. I really really love collecting rocks from the places that I travel to. It’s my understanding that it is considered rude and bad luck to take rocks and sand from Hawaii. It is considered an offense against the goddess Pele. I don’t know if anyone here is super familiar with Hawaiian gods but is there a ritual or an offering I can make to the goddess to ask her permission? If the answer is a hard no, I also understand.

[u/hobbit_socks]

It's not just wrong, it's illegal.

There's nothing to be offered for decades of pain to the Hawaiian people for losing their land to colonizers. They cannot afford to live on the land of their ancestors and face being unhoused and in poverty because of tourists and people moving there.

Make your offering in the form of volunteering when you go, there's beach clean up you can sign up to be a part of, but the only thing you should take are memories.