The creation of the south island

 Last week for Mrs Jones's writing group we had to write about a moari legend on about how the south island came to be, first we had to make a plan for our writing. after we did that we had to start writing a template about the legend using our plans, after we finished the template we had to self check buddy check and teacher check then once we have done so we create our blog post.

                              The creation of the south island

First Rangi (the sky father) had 4 sons Rakiroa Rakirua Rarakiroa and the eldest was Aoraki, he was married to a woman named Pokoharua-te-po but then one day Raki had fallen in love with the earth mother (Papatuanuku) but when pokoharua-te-po had found out she was heartbroken. The brothers got really upset that their father had fallen in love with another women, so the brothers had decided to go down from the havens and see what all the fuss was about and why their father didn’t want their mother anymore.

So then Aoraki and his brothers had set off onto the ocean to go find this woman that their father had fallen in love with and to go check her out and see what was so great about her, but where ever they went the kept  on only seeing more and more ocean and no new land or the papatuanuku (earth mother).

But as they were sailing in their waka a storm had started to form in the sky they thought that it was their father telling them to come back home. So as being the oldest Aorkai the leader started to chant a magic karakia that would lift their waka up off the ocean and safely back up to the hevans to the their father.

So as aoraki was chanting the karakia he had messed something up in the karakia so instead of lifting up off the water the waka tipped onto it’s side so the brothers climbed on top of the waka and huddled together as their hair started to turn white then their skin started to become stone, then they started to form into the southern alps Aoraki being the tallest mountain and his brothers being the nearby alps.