Dark Moon Falls: Abel

✍ Scribed by Bella Roccaforte

• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 88 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ASIN: B088Q73PRK

✦ Synopsis

The ant and the grasshopper -- The aunt who bristled with bones -- The aute and the whau -- Apa's fall -- Bald Hill -- The baldness of Tama-mutu -- The basket of spider's webs -- The battle of the shellfish -- The best husband -- By darkness was Wairaka misled -- The canoe of lizards and insects -- The celestial canoe that came to Earth -- Child of the rainbow god -- The cod and the eel -- The coming of the stars -- The conquest of Cook Strait -- The cry of the little green parrot -- The cuttle-fish of Cook Strait -- Darkness comes to the sacred sands -- Death -- Death of a nanakia -- The death of Kiki -- The death of Tama-te-kopua and Tuhoro -- The demon dog of the Whakatane Gorge -- The demon of the Kaimanawa Range -- The destructive powers of Te Mahoihoi -- The dog and the lizard -- The dogs of Taneatua -- A dream of migration -- The duet -- The disappointed ogress -- The enchanted dog.;The farewell song of the turehu -- The fate of Manaia and his family -- The featureless face -- The first carving -- Fish from the sky -- Five days in the underworld -- The flight of Monoa -- The flying taniwha -- The floating island -- The flocks of Ira and Koti -- The flood of Ruatapu -- The food of Rongo the spider -- The fragrant perfume of Tama -- The glacier of frozen tears -- The gods of land and sea -- The god who fled -- The great river of the sky -- The half-wooden woman -- The heart of a child -- The hills of longing -- How evil came into the world -- How Fiordland was made by Tu-te-rangi-whanoa -- How greenstone was discovered -- How Manaia brought sandflies and mosquitoes -- How Maui invented the barb -- How Tama's wife was restored to her husband -- How the goddess of death overcame Maui -- The lost lake -- Ihaka's leap -- The independent star -- The island of lizards -- The indestructible river man -- The jealous gods -- The jealous sisters -- The kauri and the whale -- The joyous revelling song of the wood rats -- The kite trackers.;The lake that disappeared -- The kumara and the fern root -- The last days of Tamatea -- The launching of Rata's canoe -- Little heads and big face -- The love charm -- Mackerel clouds and dog's noses -- The maggots of Tu-taka-hinahina -- The man in the Moon -- Man returns to the earth of which he is made -- The men who yelped -- The monster that became a hill -- A monotonous diet -- The Moon and the sorrows of death -- The mosquito and the sandfly -- The mother-love of Hine-moana -- The mountains of love -- Mourning -- Murder -- Mountains with itchy feet -- The nautilus shell -- The north-west wind and the taniwha -- On the making of adzes -- The onslaughts of the ocean goddess -- Pania of the reef -- The place-naming of Hau -- The pigeon that held up the land -- Pohutukawa blossoms red with blood -- The prophetic cormorant of the Whirinaki River -- The pouakai of Tawera -- Racing rivers -- The rainbow bridge -- Rewards and punishments for the birds -- The rain of fish -- The ridge of the albatross -- Rivers of love and longing -- The sandhills of Taranaki.;Shame -- The shark and the lizard -- Sharks -- The singing log -- The sky-encircling adze -- The spring that would not stop rising -- The spell that rebounded -- Spurt to the sky -- The strength of Kahu-ngunu -- The scorched hands of Maui -- Sun and Moon -- The sweet-scented maiden -- The talking heads -- Tohea who ran like the wind -- The talking tui -- The taniwha of Taupo -- The taniwha of Waikare-moana -- Tara and the taniwha -- The teasing of Hine-utu -- The whale that ate the land -- Underwater adventures -- The totara tree that tried to touch the sky -- The voyage of the dark moon -- The unwelcome relation -- Tawhaki and the birds -- The whitebait of Taupo-moana -- Why the sea ebbs and flows -- Why the native trout is red -- The wishing tree of Hine-hopu and enchanted stones of Rotoiti -- The wild man of the forest -- Why the albatross stays at sea -- The winds of Maui -- The wreck of the Arai-te-uru -- The wizard of Abel Tasman's roads -- The woman who cursed.