"MYTHS & LEGENDS"
Maori legends from Lytton High School Gisborne
Once upon a time there lived a beautiful women named Rongomaiwahine. She lived in a marae with her husband. There was another fulla who fell deeply in love with Rongomaiwahine, he tried and he tried to make her fall in love with him but she denied liking him. One day he went to the moana and went diving for paua. Once he got the paua he ate them, and waited for Rongomai to go to sleep. Once he saw Rongomai and her husband asleep he crept beside them and lay down and farted. Rongomai awoke and yelled at her husband,"You stink person go outside if you wanna fart!" Then this man named Kahungunu crept back in and farted again. "Get out, get out" Rongomai yelled at her husband, so he went out and Kahungunu snuck in again. Then Rongomai fell in love with Kahungunu and they got married. |
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One day a man by the name of Tumoanakotore was sleeping . The people of his tribe thought that he had died, so they wrapped him up in a piece of material, and they hung him up on a branch in a tree. This was their custom in those days. The townspeople started to walk back to their homes when suddenly they heard a voice calling out: "Help me! Come back! ... for I am not dead! I am alive!" so they went back to the tree and untied Tumoanakotore and apologised to him because of that really big mistake. Tumoanakotore also had a grandchild called Tuwhakairiora. Tuwhakairiora was named after Tumoanakotore.
Tuwhakairiora was named as Tu - whakairi - ora Tuwhakairiora was born when the sky was red. The pre-dawn is what we call te atapö in New Zealand. Tuwhakairiora is well known in the North Island around the Ngati-Porou area. |
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In the olden days a young Maori woman named Hinehäkirirangi travelled all the way from Hawaiiki to Muriwai. The name of the Maori boat that Hinehäkirirangi travelled on from Hawaiiki to Muriwai was Horouta. She brought some kumara seeds all the way from Hawaiiki. Suddenly she saw a beautiful hill that she could plant kumara seeds in Aotearoa (New Zealand). She walked from Muriwai to the hill at Manutuke with two bags full of kumara seeds. When she got to the hill in Manutuke she planted all the kumara seeds. After she planted the kumara seeds, she named the beautiful hill she planted the seeds on, Manawaru. Now these days Manawaru is in good hands. Pakeha version Jamie & Kelly |
I ngä rä o mua i häere mai tëtahi wahine ätaahua ko tona ingoa ko Hinehäkirirangi, mai ia Hawaiiki kia Muriwai. Te ingoa o te waka i haere mai a Hinehakirirangi ki runga mai i Hawaiiki ki Muriwai ko Horouta. I mau aia i ëtahi purapura Kumara mai i Hawaiiki. Tërä tëtahi rangi i kitea e Hinehäkirirangi i tëtahi maunga ätaahua, kia tunu öna purapura kumara ki runga. Ko aia te tangata tuatahi tunu i ngä purapura kumara i roto i Aotearoa. I hikoi a Hinehäkirirangi mai ia Muriwai ki tërä maunga kei Manutuke, e mau ana e rua ngä peke taumaha o ngä purapura kumara. Te taenga atu aia ki te maunga kei Manutuke i tunu aia i nga purapura kumara. A muri i töna tunutanga i nga purapura kumara, Te whakaingoatia aia i te maunga ätaahua ko Manawaru. I enei tau kua manäki te maunga o Manawaru. He ätaahua tonu te maunga Maori tuhituhi Jamie & Kelly |
