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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.
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]
Tāwhiao's granddaughter, Te Puea, ensured the continuance of Pai Mārire into modern times, recalling the story of how, just before his death, Tāwhiao told his people, 'I shall return this gift to the base of the mountains, leaving it there to lie. When you are heavily burdened, then fetch it to you.' [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 korupe (carving over the window frame) at Mahina-a-Rangi meeting house at Turangawaewae Marae, Ngāruawāhia showing the Tainui canoe with its captain Hoturoa.Above the canoe is Te Hoe-o-Tainui, a famous paddle, the kete (basket) given to Whakaotirangi by a tohunga of Hawaiki, the bird Parakaraka (front) who was able to see in the dark, and another bird who warned of approaching daylight. [1]
1001 Arabian Nights is a 1959 American animated comedy film produced by United Productions of America (UPA) and distributed by Columbia Pictures.Released to theaters on December 1, 1959, the film is a loose adaptation of the Arab folktale of "Aladdin" from One Thousand and One Nights, albeit with the addition of UPA's star cartoon character, Mr. Magoo, to the story as Aladdin's uncle, "Abdul ...