Hinemoa & Tutanekai the love story

Today for learning and reading we read a myth and legend book it was could Hinemoa & Tutanekai the legend from the Te Arawa people, The story theme is all about love, first we got an activity to write three questions down about Hinemoa & Tutanekai and about how they meet and stuff like that, So the story was all about Hinemoa & Tutanekai and there love
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Hinemoa: Why Did the father not accept the marriage?
Tutanekai: How did you feel when you first saw her?
Tutanekai: When did you first meet her?

The story was about two people there was a beauty high - ranked young laddie was the daughter of an influential chief could Hinemoa and she was the one looking for love, And there was a man could

Tutanekai he was a brave worrier that went to Hinemoa's and her fathers land around Owhata the shores of lake Rotorua, 

Because of her high rank, Hinemoa was declared sacred, Her family like her father for instants or her sibling too could or had to choose a husband for when Hinemoa Tutanekai and most of his family from  the island Mokoia in lake Rotorua t hey meet on the shores of Owhata the shores of lake Rotorua 

they loved each other from the very start and Hinemoa knew that her family wasn't going to accept the love the relationship so Hinemoa swam because she could not push one of there boats out so she got water barrels not plastic ones the kind that were carved out of wood, so she got them and swam to Tutanekai's island Mokoia 

When Hinemoa got to Tutanekai's island she was cold because she could not wear her feather or cloth skirt in the water because she would drown because of the weight so she got cold when she got there she found a hot pool were a servant was sent to get some water he got some but Hinemoa bumped in and told the servant to go get her water please said Hinemoa so he got some and gave it to her she told the servant to tell Tutanekai that she was there and the she smashed the Hui and he ran to tell him

Tutanekai went to the big puddle and the fell in love so they stayed together in happy out of love eventually Umaru the father found out that they were in love and then he let them be.

THE END