Rona and Moon Myth

In a small village there lived a little family. A mother Rona, her lazy husband and her children. Although Rona’s husband had the job of carrying containers filled with water to keep the family hydrated, sadly Rona was left with most of the responsibilities.

One night Rona and her family ran out of water. It was super dark and so obviously instead of her husband getting water, he with no hesitation sent Rona down to get more water. Rona didn’t have a choice so off she went.

The moon was the only light Rona had. Rona ran as quickly as she could, leaping through rocks, and branches. Rona was not yet halfway by the water hole so she continued running. Then, out of nowhere, a huge cloud passed across the moon’s face.That incident caused Rona’s path and the night to turn pitch black.

Rona not having a clue on where she was running, she tripped and fell over branches and rocks. Rona felt the full impact in her fall causing her to be out for some minutes. Rona was badly bruised and badly hurt.

All of a sudden she started yelling these awful words to Marama the moon. And so Marama had enough of it and proceeded to grab Rona. With a tight grip Rona was able to hold on to a branch of a ngaio tree. Although Rona had a strong grip it was no match for Marama.

And so along with the ngaio branch the Moon had successfully captured Rona. Marama was able to teach Rona to be polite and have manners. Marama politely asked Rona if she wanted to enter back into her real world, but Rona had refused to go back.

And so when her family looks up into the moon they are able to see Rona’s shadow in the moon.