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Māui or Maui is the great culture hero and trickster in Polynesian mythology. Very rarely was Māui actually worshipped, being less of a deity ( demigod ) and more of a folk hero . His origins vary from culture to culture, but many of his main exploits remain relatively similar.
In the song "Shiny" composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Mark Mancina, Tamatoa called Maui "Ya little semi-demi-mini-god". [8] This version of Maui incorporates elements of the Māui from Māori mythology and other Polynesian narratives. Maui was also the subject of Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's song "Maui Hawaiian Sup'pa Man" in his most well-known ...
Māui proposed to catch the sun and slow it down. Armed with the jaw-bone of Murirangawhenua and a large amount of rope, which is in some tellings made from his sister Hina's hair, Māui and his brothers journeyed to the east and found the pit where the sun-god Tama-nui-te-rā slept during the night-time. There they tied the ropes into a noose ...
The trickster is a common stock character in folklore and popular culture. A clever, mischievous person or creature, the trickster achieves goals through the use of trickery. A trickster may trick others simply for amusement or for survival in a dangerous world. The trickster could be a personification of the chaos that the world needs to function.
In other versions of the legend, Mahuika is regarded as Maui's grandmother, instead of his aunty. [10] Tāwhirimātea, the God of wind, is a present character in the Māori myth but is not mentioned in the Gossage novel. In the myth, despite Māui transforming into a kāhu, the flames were too strong and grazed the underside of his wings ...
At Maui High School, traditionally a rival of Lahainaluna, students and teachers wore Lahainaluna's red and white colors, rather than their own school's blue and white, Landes said.
Male deities depicted as tricksters, story characters (gods, goddesses, spirits, humans or anthropomorphisations) who exhibit a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge and use it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and defy conventional behavior.
Mar. 28—Maui prosecutors charged a 19-year-old Kahului man with attempted first-degree murder in the shooting of a 21-year-old woman at the Wailuku Elementary School parking lot early Monday ...