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Mount Maunganui, or Mauao, known to locals as The Mount, [3] is a 232 metre (760 foot) volcanic dome at the end of a peninsula in the Tauranga suburb of Mount Maunganui in New Zealand, beside the eastern entrance to the city's harbour. Local Māori consider Mauao to be tapu (sacred), and it plays an important role in their mythology.
Mauao (The Mount) is a large lava dome [3] which rises above the town. According to Maori legend, this hill was a pononga [slave] to a mountain called Otanewainuku. [8] The conical headland which gives the town its name is 232 metres (761 ft) in height, and dominates the mostly flat surrounding countryside.
The story is set in a world embroiled by war between Humans and Demons. The Humans' greatest warrior, the Hero (勇者, Yūsha), invades the castle of the Demon King (魔王, Maō), intent on vanquishing the leader of the Demons. Inside, the Hero discovers that the Demon King is in fact a Demon Queen; and instead of battling him, the Demon ...
Rongokako was the son of Tamatea Arikinui, who captained the Tākitimu canoe from Hawaiki to Aotearoa New Zealand. [2] His mother was Tato, a direct descendant of Toi-kai-rākau, [3] who harnessed Tamatea when he landed at Mauao and thereby forced him to marry her. [4]
Robley was born at Funchal, Madeira, on 28 June 1840, the son of John Horatio Robley, a captain (retired) of the Madras Native Infantry, East India Company, [4] [5] and Augusta Jane Penfold (1809–1868), second daughter of William and Sarah Penfold of Madiera. [6]
In a story recounted from Hone Te Paina of Oraka, Foveaux Strait; [4] on the Tākitimu Mountains there haunts a woman patupaiarehe named Kaiheraki, who appears as a spectrelike giantess striding along the mountaintops on misty days. [15] Kaiheraki's story begins with a mortal man named Hautapu who was a skilled hunter and tohunga.
The story – part historical and part fictional – romanticises and dramatises the lives of feudal lords and their retainers, who tried to supplant the dwindling Han dynasty or restore it. While the novel follows hundreds of characters, the focus is mainly on the three power blocs that emerged from the remnants of the Han dynasty, and would ...
Su Xiaoxiao's rebuilt tomb, 2004 Another view of Su's tomb, 2009. Su Xiaoxiao's tomb was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, but it was rebuilt in 2004, with a new pavilion featuring twelve poetry posts, each handwritten by famous calligraphers. The current tomb is empty. [13] Today, Su Xiaoxiao's tomb is a popular tourist attraction in ...