My Maori myth how thunder became a thing

This week we were learning about myths and legends based around Aotearoa.

heres my story.

Tāwhirimātea

Once upon a time upon the clouds there was a village and in that village there was a young good looking man named Tāwhirimātea .

next to their village  was a young beautiful girl named aroha. Both of the villages were arch enemies.

Aroha and Tāwhirimātea   were so deep in love but had to keep it a secret from there villages. one day arohas chief/dad god of lightning came looking for her and saw that  Tāwhirimātea and aroha together.. Arohas dad was so furious that he declared war on Tāwhirimāteas village. Tāwhirimātea  ran back to his village and warned his village about arohas dad declaring war on them.

so the village was preparing for war., Tāwhirimātea had tried to go see aroha before the war had started. he had seen aroha leaning over a log and then saw her dad with a machete chanting a kurakea! he was making a sacrifice by killing aroha.

he quickly ran to try to save aroha,  but it was to late. They all pointed spears at Tāwhirimātea, he quickly ran back to his village  and told the that war had begun.

Tāwhirimātea  was a whole other person that day.  he had stormed into the village roaring like thunder and fought every single person in the village with his almighty roa and strength…..

His roaring is also known as thunder today….