Maui and the Fish Hook
The Maui and the FishhookWhen he convened a gathering of chieftains and men, he said that he needed their help in paddling, but they could not look back until the isles were joined. He fortified his magical Macau on the Isle of Maui and headed towards the next Isle. Gradually the archipelago moved together.
As he was about to join Hawaii Island, a chieftain glanced back and cast a charm. They slipped back to their former position, except for the part attached to Maui's hook, which ended up in Hilo Bay and is known as Mokuola Island or "Island of Life" (now generally referred to as Coconut Island).
and its mythological fishhooks, 4 Maui myths.
Demigod Maui is considered a childlike con man with an overbearing side - not the character. There are four famous Hwaiian legend about Maui and his magic hook. Maui' s four older brethren liked to go fish and always catched enough to keep the whole town well-fed. And Maui was always abandoned, brought misfortune and only the smallest fish.
According to myth, one of these days Maui could no longer bear it - the demigod begged his brethren, who eventually took him away. On this occasion Maui introduced his magical fish hook, Manaiakalani with a very particular kind of lure - a pen from the holy fowls of his mum Hina (the lunar goddess), the www. manaiakalani.
When Maui and his brethren had paddled the kayak far out to sea, they threw their ropes and were waiting. Shortly afterwards Maui hitched something so big that he had to tell his brethren to keep on canoeing and not look back so that he wouldn't lose his fisher. One of his brethren was aroused by the intensive battle, and when he turned around, the line was broken, but Maui had already dragged eight green tropic isles from the seabed.
Tired of feeding uncooked fish and veggies, Maui decided to find another aliment. Maui crept into the smoke-filled mine after numerous experiments to capture the perpetrator of this mess: a wrestler (Hawaiian moorhen). Seeking to keep the fire-making skills confidential, Maui, a member of Maui' s website, asked Maui to scrub two parts of her website ?alae ("Banana tree") together.
As this didn't work, Maui compressed the bird's throats until he accidentally buried the mystery - use two slices of dry ciawe. When his personal sanction Maui made a large fire as directed, but made an imprint on the front of ?alae The fire was punished in a personal way. It is a myth that tells why the individual poultry have brightly coloured beaks and their chickens are bred with a bare-headed, scarlet beak.
Every single passing days legend tells us that deities and mortal men lamented the loss of humanity. Maui' had had enough of the pranks of the sundown. Everybody was laughing at his madness, but Maui put his pitfall in the dark and was waiting. Eventually the eclipse could no longer stand the heat and promising Maui that he would slower and give the humans and deities more light for a few h.
Maui, according to myth, was living in a dark age. It was a period when the heavens were pressing near the earth and even the highest tree foliage flattened. So Maui went looking for a cahuna ( "priest/shaman") to lead him and received a magic tattoos and pumpkin to strengthen him.
Maui was able to raise the skies on his shoulder and walk to the highest summit with his miraculous power. Up on Haleakal? the demigod tossed the skies into the skies where he is sitting today. However, it won't be long before Maui comes back, all afraid of being kicked out.