🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 10

Those grey-white parapets of fire-made rock are the Ashes of the Fires of Tamatea, and this is the wonderful tale of Tamatea and his magic fire, a tale of old which brings in, too, our great arrowhead peak, towering yonder on Rapaki’s western side, yon huge upjut lording it sentry-wise over the Maori _kainga_.

Who acts: white parapets, this, tale, great arrowhead peak, yon huge upjut, Tamatea · What happens: make, be, bring in, tower, lord, fire · To what, where: Ashes, wonderful tale, western side, upjut, Maori

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