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Mokoia Island in Lake Rotoroa, is sacred to the Te Arawa Tribe of the Maori people, and is the setting for the legend of Hinemoa and Tutenakai.
The warrior Tutenakai lived on the tiny island and played music each night on his pipes with his friend Tiki. The music floated on the air across the lake and on its banks noble-born Hinemoa heard the notes the warrior played. Tutenakai visited Hinemoa's village and met her and they fell in love, but he had to return to his village on the island. He promise Hinemoa that he would play the music each night, so that she could follow the music and swim across the lake to the island to join him. Hinemoa heard the music and had selected six dry gourds to use as floats so that she could swim across the lake. She followed the music and made it to the island, gaining refreshment at the hot spring on the island, Waikimihia. By chance Tutenakai had sent his servant to collect water, and he reported back that there was a young woman by the spring. Tutenakai rushed down to greet Hinemoa, and they lived happily ever after. See on the Map-olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Lake_Rotoroa, Mokoia_Island
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Hindu mythology tells of how the Ganges was the heavenly river that descended from to form the Ganges that now crosses India.
King Baghiratha performed pennance in a bid to gain the salvation of sixty thousand of his ancestors who as ashes were had been trapped in the underworld, and in so doing gained the prize of the Ganges descent from heaven. However, the force of the fall would split the earth apart, and so Baghiratha persuades the god Shiva to break the fall of the river's descent by using the coils of his hair. The Ganges falls from heaven onto the coils and can then gently fall onto the Himalayas, before Baghiratha led the river out across India and into the ocean so that it could plunge to the underworld to save his ancestors. See the source of the Ganges on the Map-Olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=The_Ganges'_Descent_from_Heaven Yutu - The Jade Rabbit Stone - Beijing
Jade Rabbit Stone is found in Beijing's Phoenix Ridge - Fenghuangling - Nature Park. Jade Rabbit is the pet of the Chinese Moon Goddess, Chang E, and can be seen on the face of the moon using a mortar and pestle to crush the elixir of life. Chang E was summoned to the palace of the Jade Emperor, and she placed her beloved pet on Phoenix Ridge so that whilst she was gone it could eat and drink. Jade Rabbit explored Phoenix Ridge and played with the other rabbits that lived there. Chang E returned from the palace but couldn't find Jade Rabbit, but with her orders from the Jade Emperor she had a mission to accomplish, and couldn't take any more time to find Jade Rabbit. Jade Rabbit waited and waited at the exact spot where Chang E had left her and turned to stone. So is the Jade Rabbit seen on the moon the spirit of Jade Rabbit returned to the Moon Goddess Chang E. Was the re-union complete when China's first lunar rover landed and explored the moon in December 2013, called by the Chinese public 'Yutu' - Jade Rabbit in an online vote? See on the Map-Olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Jade_Rabbit_Stone_-_Beijing Native American legends tell of Oniare living in the Great Lakes.
The Iroquois gave the dragon-like water serpent, with a horned head, the name Oniare. Hiding in the waters of the Great Lakes it would prey on travellers, overturning their canoes and using its poisonous breath. Travellers could avoid its wrath by making offerings, or by calling upon Oriane's enemy the thunder god, Hinon. Sightings by the descendants of the European settlers, also report a sea serpent creature from the 1800s through to the 1990s, where it is called affectionately, Bessie. See on the Map-olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Oniare_-_Iroquois_Lake_Monster |
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