Maui and the Magic Fish Hook
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The Maui and the magic fish hook, a recounting of a Maori legend.
Maori, natives of my homeland New Zealand, have many tales of how the New Zealand is made. One time I did a research on Maori history. Because Maori tales and legend survive so well, all tales were transmitted verbally by the familiy, Maori had no script until the Europeans came, so they were content to tell tales of their forebears to their sons and siblings.
The Maui and the Magic Hook is a well-known Maori legend about the origins of New Zealand. Maui, the youngest of his brethren, possess a miraculous capacity that his household did not know, for he was a half-god. If his brethren had known that, they might not have scorned him so much and let him join them in the fishery, or they might have been jealous.
Maui wanted to go angling, so he chose to go angling the floor of his brothers' Vaka on the eve of the war. Before Maui manifested himself to his brethren, the Vaka was far out to sea. No. The rowers continued out and soon began to fish.
The Maui dangling his magic fish hook, which he had formed from an aboriginal jaw bone, over the side of the Vaka, he burst through the wobbling waters and struck down, down, down. Felt way too much to be a fish trawler. In fact, it was so powerful that Maui had to ask his brethren to help him take the fish, whatever it was.
Together they hoisted and stressed and pulled and blew until what later appeared to Te Ika a Maui, the fish of Maui. He was not sure how the deities would respond to him and his brethren who revealed this huge fish from the ocean, so they said to his brethren to abandon the fish and not slice it while he walked and soothed the deities.
However, either the Maui Brothers did not respected or were eager or perhaps both, for they soon began to slice and chop the fish and unconsciously created the hills and dales, burrs and shorelines in a country that later became known as New Zealand's North Island.