Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Participant of the Merrie Monarch Parade in Hilo performs as demigod Māui. In the 2016 Disney computer-animated musical film Moana, the demigod Maui is voiced by Dwayne Johnson. Abandoned by his human parents as a baby, the gods took pity on him and made him a demigod and gave him a magic fish hook that gives him the ability to shapeshift. [7]
Māui stole fire from the fingernails of Mahuika. Māui wanted to know where fire came from, so one night he went among the villages of his people and put all the fires out. Māui's mother Taranga, who was their rangatira, said that someone would have to ask Mahuika, the goddess of fire, for more. So Māui (a grandson of Mahuika) offered to go ...
The Polynesian demigod Maui was so powerful he could raise islands up from the ocean floor and capture the sun to slow it down. But residents of the Hawaiian island named after that mythical ...
It's a question that the demigod Maui tunefully poses to the titular princess in "Moana 2." ... delivered by Maui via fire conch). It was the last song written for the movie, replacing another ...
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has completely transformed into Maui, the demigod he portrays in Disney's live-action Moana, in newly-leaked photos.. In April 2023, Johnston announced the reimagined ...
The son of Hina and Kahikiula, the chief of Oahu, Kamapuaʻa was particularly connected with the island of Maui. [2] A kupua , Kamapuaʻa is best known for his romantic pursuit of the fire goddess Pele, with whom he shared a turbulent relationship. Despite Pele's power, Kamapuaʻa's persistence allows him to turn her lava rock into fertile soil.
In some traditions, Māui planted Mahuika's fingernails in the trees to make fire. [9] 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 ...