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                                                                  Aoraki the guardian Maori legend believed that   Aoraki was a young boy who, along with his three brothers, were the sons of Rakinui , the Sky Father.   And papatuanuku ,the earth mother They once planned a voyage on sea   to visit their earth mother and disaster struck them .Their boat got stranded on the ocean .To save themselves they climbed upon the boat and the cold   south winds froze them turning them to stone ..   the great land was born. Brothers became the mountains and peaks …thus   mt cook was born with the other peaks .. Aoraki, the tallest, became the highest peak Mt Cook , and his brothers, the southern alps. (The Ngāi Tahu , the main tribe of New Zealand's southern region, consider Aoraki as the most sacred of the ancestors that they had descended from. Aoraki brings the kiwi with its sense of community and purpose, and remains the physical form of Aoraki and the link between the wor