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To celebrate new Zealand's national Waitangi Day we have a legend from Rotoroa:
ROTOROA, NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND 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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THE CREATION OF LOUGH NEAGH AND THE ISLE OF MAN
The warrior Fin McCool was chasing a Scottish giant across Ulster, unable to quite reach him he bent down and scooped out a huge divot and flung it at the disappearing giant. The throw was of such a range it overtook the giant, and carried on out into the Irish Sea, with a massive splash the Isle of Man was created in the Irish Sea between England and Northern Ireland. Whilst, the hole in the ground where Fin McCool grabbed the divot of earth quickly filled with water creating Lough Neagh! See on the Map-olah map: www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=The_Creation_of_Lough_Neagh_and_the_Isle_of_Man LOCH NESS, SOUTH WEST OF INVERNESS, HOME OF THR LOCH NESS MONSTER - NESSY
Home of Nessy / Nessie the Loch Ness Monster. A large water creature with numerous sightings in the Loch. Numerous attempts have been made to try and find Nessy using fleets of boats and radar / sonar. A lost dinosaur, a floating log, a large sturgeon or a feature of the local water currents? See on the Map-olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Loch_Ness 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 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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