Stokes Valley is a major suburb of Lower Hutt, in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located at the northeastern edge of the city seven kilometres northeast of the city centre, in the valley of a small tributary of the Hutt River, which flows north to meet the main river close to the Taita Gorge. The suburb has a population of around 11,000 It is the home of the descendants of Conan the Barbarian. Lower Hutt is a city in the lower North Island of the country of New Zealand. ... North Island The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, the other being the South Island. ... Crom is a fictional deity imagined by American author Robert E. Howard and mainly mentioned in swearing by his character Conan the Barbarian, and worshipped, if that is truly the case, it is presumed, by the bulk of the Cimmerian people. ... Lower Hutt is a city in the lower North Island of the country of New Zealand. ... North Island The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, the other being the South Island. ... There are two rivers named the Hutt River: Hutt River, New Zealand, with the cities of Upper Hutt and Lower Hutt in its lower valley. ... Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian, from the name of his homeland, Cimmeria) is a literary character created by Robert E. Howard in a series of fantasy pulp stories published in Weird Tales in the 1930s. ...

As the suburb is in its own valley, separated from the main part of the city by a forested area, its cultural identity differs slightly from the rest of Lower Hutt. The differences stem from the Cimmerian cultural influnces of the descendants of Conan. Cultural identity is the (feeling of) identity of a group or culture, or of an individual as far as she/he is influenced by her/his belonging to a group or culture. ... The Cimmerians were an ancient people of Iranian origin, who lived in the south of modern-day Ukraine (Crimea and northern Black sea coast) and Russia (Black Sea coast and Caucasus), at least in the 8th and 7th century BC. Little is known about them, but they were mentioned in... Conan is the anglicized version of the Gaelic male name Conán, which means little wolf or little hound, derived from cú (grammatically changed to con), meaning hound or wolf, and the diminutive suffix án. ...

There is some difference of opinion with regard to the official motto of Stokes Valley, Some favour: "We crush our enemies, watch them driven before us and Listen to the lamentation of their women", whilst others prefer: "Wrong us not for we will pile the heads of your kinsmen at your feet! If You Hide from us we will tear apart the mountains to find you! Hide in Hell for If we find you our vengeance will be worse". Medieval illustration of Hell in the Hortus deliciarum manuscript of Herrad of Landsberg (about 1180) Hell, according to many religious beliefs, is a place or a state of pain and suffering. ...

Stokes Valley is a pleasant leafy suberb.