How The Kiwi Lost Its Wings.

How the Kiwi lost its Wings



Thousands of years ago. In this amazing area, we now call home. Tanemahuta roamed through the greenery. One day when he began walking aimlessly through his kids  (WEIRDO) the trees he saw that they were falling sick because there were bugs infesting them. He called on his brother Tanehokahoka and explained to him the situation. Tanehokahoka then called on the birds and began asking the one by one if they would come down to live on the first floor.



He first asked Tui if he would be so kind as to come down from the forest roof and begin a new life on the forest floor. Tui peered up through the few leaves as the nice warm sun shone down on him, and then he examined the forest floor. To his dismay it was very dark and cold looking, so he replied to Tanehokahoka by saying “no sorry it is very dark looking down there and I am much afraid of the dark. Tanehokahoka then moved onto the next bird.



Pukeko will you come down to the forest floor he asked. Pukeko gazed down at the damp muddy forest floor and the looked at his nice clean dry branch. He called down to Tanehokahoka “I am sorry but the floor of the forest in much to wet for me and may cause my feet to get muddy. Tanehokahoka then moved onto the next bird.



Pipiwharauroa will you come down to live on the forest floor he asked once more. Pipiwharauroa eyed the floor and then he glanced around at his working family and the shining sun. He then made his replied to Tanehokahoka “I can not at the moment because I am to busy making my nest. Tanehokahoka then moved onto the next bird.



Kiwi will you come down Tanehokahoka echoed. Kiwi gazed around at the trees and the rays of sunlight. He looked at his family hopping around and then he looked at the dark forest floor. He then replied to Tanehokahoka “yes, yes I will. The gods were then filled with joy as the now had some hope. Tanehokahoka then warned Kiwi that if he agreed to this he would have to grow strong legs to be on the floor and that he would have to lose all his colourful feathers and wings so he would blend in with the forest floor, he would also never be able to return to the trees. Kiwi still replied with yes.



Tanehokahoka then turned to Tui and said, You were too afraid to come down to the forest floor so you will always have two feathers under your chin to show what a coward you are. Pukeko, you were so worried about getting muddy you will now become a bird of a swamp. And Pipiwharauroa, since you were to busy building your nest to come down you, will not build another nest but steal them from others. From then on Kiwi lived on the ground and ate all the bugs.

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Maui ans the Giant Fish

Maui and the Giant Fish





A very long time ago. When Maui himself sailed the seas, there lived a young boy named (you guessed it) Maui who’s one dream (at the time) was to fish with his brothers for he wanted to have a part in the enjoyable deed that they performed.





Everyday Maui’s Brothers; Maui-mua, Maui-taha, Maui-pae, Maui-roto, and Maui-Tikitiki-o-Ta- ranga would go out fishing and catch many fish. And every evening when his brothers would reach their land again Maui would canvass with them to let him come, but they would always use the same excuse “Your will take up to much room meant for fish” or sometimes “Your so skinny we might mistake you for bait and through you in on accident” so after a while Maui got used to disappointment.





On day though he had gotten roasted for being to sort and skinny to many times and got very angry and decided to create a master plan. So that night when he was alone, he started making a fishing hook by weaving flax together into a sturdy rope. While he was creating his line, he chanted a kadakia until he finished it by weaving in a jawbone from his ancestors. Early the next morning before anybody else was up, he went out to his brothers canoe and suppressed away into the hull and started waiting.





When his sibling finally arrived, they began pulling the waka out to the water. During this time the brothers complain about the boat being heavier and that the others should cut back on the kumara until the oldest brother told them to shut it.A little while later when Maui heard them drop the anchor and realised that they were past the point of going back he revealed himself for all to see. His brother when flabbergasted but when the got their voices back Maui got many new words added to his vocabulary, but when he could finally get a word in he explained to them that he had been born to be a great fisherman and their ancestors had said so themselves.




Maui said to them that he would recite a kadakia and they would catch more fish then they ever had before. So the brother casted their lines and began catching fish straight away until their waka was filled. After they had finished Maui declared it was his turn and pulled out his rope. At this action as the brothers saw his line they burst out laughing “you can't fish with that” they said. Maui was a bit annoyed after that but just continued to asking them for some bait which just started a new round of laughter. Now feeling even more miffed, became his own bully and punched himself in the nose creating a flow of blood that he then started covering his hook with.






The hook sunk all the way down to the bottom of the ocean and caught on the biggest fish yet that started towing the whole boat across the ocean. The brothers pleaded with Maui to cut the rope by after awhile he began to gain so rope back, until finally he pulled to the surface a giant fish.




Maui and his brothers paddled closer to the fish and Maui commanded them to get out of the boat so he could go back to their island and fetch their people. As soon a Maui had departed from the fish, his brothers started chopping into the mighty fish and claiming gigantic portions as theirs. When Maui came back with his extended family they all witnessed the true greediness of the brothers. From then on all of Maui's people lived on the fish and it became the north island, and Maui's Waka became the south island.




The End




By Leah Maree

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