Tongariro
Role: woman and mountain · First appears: Chapter XVI · The Battle of the Giants
In Chapter XVI · The Battle of the Giants, Taranaki and Ruapehu decide to fight for Tongariro. She is described as smiling at both her suitors. After the fight, Ruapehu becomes her husband and the supreme lord over the lands.
Relationship record
Life events
- Taranaki and Ruapehu decided to fight for Tongariro.(Chapter XVI · The Battle of the Giants)
- Ruapehu became Tongariro’s husband and supreme lord over the lands.(Chapter XVI · The Battle of the Giants)
- With: Ruapehu
- “he looked back at his conqueror, and saw how his three peaks were again covered with fresh snow, and how he was now the supreme lord over all the lands and the husband of Tongariro.”
Chapter XVI · The Battle of the Giants
- admirer: Taranaki (Taranaki is one of the two suitors.) “Softly then answered the gently ascending Steam-column of Tongariro, smiling and swaying, gold-bordered by the setting sun; smiling at both her suitors.”
- admirer: Ruapehu (Ruapehu is one of the two suitors.) “Softly then answered the gently ascending Steam-column of Tongariro, smiling and swaying, gold-bordered by the setting sun; smiling at both her suitors.”
- married with Ruapehu “On to the sea went Taranaki, and, when his pain had left him a little, he looked back at his conqueror, and saw how his three peaks were again covered with fresh snow, and how he was now the supreme lord over all the lands and the husband of Tongariro.”
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Extracted from the original text of Te Tohunga. Made with Rho MD.