🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 36

The fire, sent by the gods in the heart of the North Island, burst forth from Tongariro and speeding down the rift of the Wanganui River valley it touched a spot near Nelson, and again it touched Motu-nau--the small island close to the Canterbury Coast--and then it appeared again in a magic blaze on the side of Witch Hill, and the Maori explorers warmed their frozen limbs and were saved.

Who acts: fire, prayer, it, Maori explorers · What happens: send, burst, speed, touch, appear, warm · To what, where: fire, heart, Tongariro, rift, spot, Nelson

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