Name: Pirongia. Mystical mountain of the Patupaiarehe.
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Description: #spirituality #interdimensionals #travel In1996 I spent around four months travelling around the country of my birth before I headed away overseas for seven years. I ventured into some incredible loca

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#spirituality #interdimensionals #travel

In1996 I spent around four months travelling around the country of my birth before I headed away overseas for seven years. I ventured into some incredible locations and met some very interesting people as I hitchhiked around the islands. When I hitched from Rotorua into the Te Urewera National Park I got a ride with a former gang member and cannabis grower who had for years grown his crops on the slopes of Pirongia mountain.

He told me a story about about the experience of the final crop that he grew on the mountain, one which he left to rot rather than harvest. I queried why he had done this. Was he close to being arrested by the Police? The answer he gave to me was extraordinary. He told me that he had gone into the location where his crop was weeks before harvest to find enormous footprints all through the plants, footprints of a large bipedal hominid.

To him, this was a sign that the faerie folk, the Patupaiarehe, who supposedly had retreated to the mountain tops when the first wave of Polynesian colonists came to these islands had come down into his crop. I had heard stories of the strange happenings on this maunga (mountain), Pirongia. Since arriving back in New Zealand in late 2002 I had driven past this infamous peak and never come to climb it.