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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.
When Māui became old enough, he travelled to his family's home and found his four brothers, Māui-taha, Māui-roto, Māui-pae, and Māui-waho, and his sister, Hina. [9]: 233 The brothers are at first wary of the newcomer. [3]: 11 Later at night Māui came to his relatives while they were gathered in the marae, dancing and being merry.
Māui's next feat was to stop the sun from moving so fast. His mother Hina complained that her kapa (bark cloth) was unable to dry because the days were so short. Māui climbed to the mountain Hale-a-ka-lā (house of the sun) and lassoed the sun’s rays as the sun came up, using a rope made from his sister's hair. [2]
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The Fish of Māui, also known as Te-Ika-a-Māui, is a 1981 New Zealand children’s book by Peter Gossage, a New Zealand author. The book is retelling of the traditional Māori legend of how Māui fished up the North Island (Te Ika a Maui) of New Zealand when he sneaks onto his brothers' canoe after they have refused to take him fishing.
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This pre-missionary wooden statue of Kamapua'a was found in a cave in up-country Maui. It is on display at the Bailey House Museum.. In Hawaiian mythology, Kamapuaʻa ("hog child") [1] is a hog-man fertility superhuman associated with Lono, the god of agriculture.