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The Māori tribe of the area is Ngāti Kurī. [3]The bay was given the official name of Piwhane / Spirits Bay in 2015. [1] [4]The bay is considered a sacred place in Māori culture as according to local legend, it is the location where spirits of the dead gather to depart from this world to travel to their ancestral home (or afterlife) from a large old pōhutukawa tree above the bay.
In the center of the emblem is three monuments that stands on 6 upper foundation and 9 lower foundation, it represents the success of Operation Trikora and "PEPERA" or Act of Free Choice to unite Western New Guinea with Indonesia in 1969, the color white and black represents peace and purity. 17 seeds of rice and 8 cottons tied by red ribbon ...
Guyana, and various islands—including Antigua and Barbuda in the east, The Bahamas in the north and as far south as Trinidad—have long held a tradition of folklore that includes the jumbee. In the French islands Guadeloupe and Martinique, people speak of Zombi rather than Jumbie to describe ghosts, revenants and other supernatural creatures ...
Spirit Island is a euro-style co-operative strategy board game designed by R. Eric Reuss and published by Greater Than Games in 2017. Digital versions have been released for PC, iOS, and Android. In the game, players take the role of spirits on an island and win by driving off colonizing invaders.
The island of Espiritu Santo is home to all of Vanuatu's endemic birds, including the Santo mountain starling, a species restricted entirely to Espiritu Santo. Two protected areas have been established to safeguard the island's biodiversity; the Loru Conservation Area on the east coast and the Vatthe Conservation area near Big Bay in the north.
Water god in an ancient Roman mosaic. Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey. A water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water.Water deities are common in mythology and were usually more important among civilizations in which the sea or ocean, or a great river was more important.
Legendary Island of Apples, believed by some to be the final resting place of King Arthur. Camelot: The city in which King Arthur reigned. Cantre'r Gwaelod: A legendary ancient sunken kingdom said to have occupied a tract of fertile land lying between Ramsey Island and Bardsey Island. Celliwig: The earliest named location for the court of King ...
The Inner and Outer Hebrides off the western coast of Scotland are made up of a great number of large and small islands. These isolated islands are the source of a number of Hebridean myths and legends. The Hebridean Islands are a part of Scotland that have always relied on the surrounding sea to sustain the small communities which have ...