Why does Maungarei sleep?
It is told that long ago once there were guardians and their ancestors of the land and one of them were Maungarei, the humans would take strolls walks and even build on her, that started the roaming on Maungarei making her annoyed, she felt disrespected and thought the humans weren’t grateful for her protection, she got furious and explode in fury being woken from her slumber so she made war against the humans erupting into a fiery volcano destroying everything throughout and making her rage was so bad that she was was swallowing houses, people and villages and it developed a dark smokescreen of death.
But slowly she became lonely and after a long time no one was around. People never walked on her, talked to her or even cared. she became lonely… her whanau never cared and so she stopped erupting and instead became from a fighter to a peaceful watcher scanning over everyone. They started to have talks, chatting, kids curious, and people still wondering the “Mystery” of why Maungarei erupted and stopped and became a peaceful observer, she was peaceful with the humans now and allowed her to be woken and when she was she would’ve chatted with the humans.
So people were no longer afraid, and scared so they all flourished and lived in harmony, and no one would be afraid of Maungarei. She swore that she would never erupt and will only peacefully gaze over the humans making sure everyone is safe and watching the kids playing and slowly watching people evolve and learn more and create more technology as she keeps her calm temper to herself.
