jacob's legend of the whanganui river
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Several mountains once stood, like noble gods, high above the land in the centre of the North Island. Tongariro, the greatest of them all, lived beside Ngauruhoe, Ruapehu and Taranaki.
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Nearby these huge mountains stood the lovely maiden Pihanga, with her cloak of deep green bush folded closely around her shoulders.
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Pihanga was an object of great beauty. All the mountain gods loved her, but the one she chose was the venerable white-haired Tongariro.
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What had been a long, peaceful existence for the mountain gods was disturbed when Taranaki could no longer keep his feelings in check, and dared to make advances to Pihanga.
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A mighty conflict between Tongariro and Taranaki ensued, which shocked the very foundations of the earth. The mountains belched forth their anger and darkness clouded the sky.
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When peace finally came to the land Tongariro, considerably lowered in height, stood close by Pihanga's side.
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Taranaki, wild with grief and anger, tore himself from his roots with a mighty wrench and left his homeland. He plundered recklessly towards the setting sun. Great was his path of sorrow, for as he fled, Taranaki had torn a long, deep wound through the earth.
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Upon reaching the ocean turned north, finally coming to rest in grand isolation, a mountain in his own domain
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Soon from the side of Tongariro there sprang forth a stream of clear water which filled and healed the wound that Taranaki had made in the earth.
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Green forests, filled with the song birds, grew on the banks of this newly formed river, which we know today as the Whanganui.