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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 and more of a folk hero.His origins vary from culture to culture, but many of his main exploits remain relatively similar.
His brothers would not lend him any bait, so he struck himself on the nose and baited the hook with his blood. Māui hauled a great fish, known as Hāhau-whenua , up from the depths. Thus the North Island of New Zealand is known as Te Ika-a-Māui (The Fish of Māui).
The great fish-hook of Māui is called Manaiakalani, and it is baited with the wing of Hina's pet bird, the ʻalae. Māui is said to have created Hawaii's islands by tricking his brothers. He convinced them to take him out fishing, but caught his hook on the ocean floor. He told his brothers that he had caught a big fish and told them to paddle ...
According to legends, the hero Māui lived at Kaʻuiki, across the bay from Hana.He caught the islands of Hawaii on a fishing trip with his magical fishing hook, but failed to pull them all together when his brothers quit paddling the canoe in which they were voyaging, so the islands were left spread apart from each other.
The fish-hook shape of the hei matau means to know, which holds that the North Island of New Zealand was once a huge fish that was caught by the great mariner Māui using only a woven line and a hook made from the jawbone of his grandmother. [2]
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