Maui Myth

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Maui was a mighty trick-ster in Polish folklore, known above all for the creation of the Pacific isles. He made the island during a angling tour with his brethren. First, he made a magical fish hooks out of his grandmother's jaw. Then when his brethren watched, Maui threw the catch into the sea and began to drag the Polynesians' current home from the sea-bed.

To give the humans more light of day, to care for their garden, to prepare their meals and to make cloths, Maui made the day longer. He used his brethren to catch the suntan in a net and hit it with his grandmother's magical jaw bone. She tried to become eternal by cheating on Hina, the deity while she slept.

It crept into her skull and tried to cross it, but the deity was woken up by the call of a birds and promptly squashed Maui to her deaths.

Legend of Maui, a demigod of Polynesia: V. Maui finds fire

MORNING: MAUI FINDS FIRE. "Oh, Grant, give me your fire, O banyan tree. Execute a summon, To the Banyan Tree. From the banyan tree. Of all the useful mythological deities, however, Maui, the impish Polynesian, is undoubtedly the champion of the greatest number of nation spread over the vastest area.

Maui was part of the length and width of the Pacific. Thievery or fraud, the use of deception in any form, is almost inextricably linked to fire detection around the globe. It' s noteworthy that in many legends not only fire was stole, but also bird, which were identified by reds or blacks between their pens, were associated with theft.

Of course, the Hawaiians who live in a vulcanic land with constantly running streams of molten water would probably associate their fire myth with some volcanoes if they told the tale of the apogee. Lightstone cliffs are not found in Hawaii' mythology, nor in the history of the archipelagoes that have to do with the Hawaiians.

" Peruvians could very well make a myth of their mythic Guamansuri who found a way to start a fire after seeing the flint cast on his foes produce fire sparkles from the rock against which they were beating. The Australian tale is of an old man and his daughters living in great darkness. Here the stories are based on the stories of an old man and his daughters.

Soon after, the Lord found the Gate of Lights through which the Spirit of the Lord travelled. Then she grabbed a stick and started killing her. De Peyster's Island locals say their forebears learnt to make fire by watching fumes rising from crisscrossed limbs while shaking down a tree by violent thunderstorm.

It should be noted that the Polynesians use "t" and "k" without differentiating between them when they study the Maui mythology of the Pacific, and also, as on the Hawaiian Isles, an apoph. (') is often used instead of "t" or "k". Thus the Maui Ki-i-i-i-k-i'i of Hawaii becomes the demigod Tiki-tiki of the Gilbert Isles - or the Ti'i-ti'i of Samoa or the Tiki of New Zealand - or other isles of the great oceans.

And we must not forget that Kalana is Maui's dad in Hawaii' sabots. Kanaloa, the great Polynesian deity, is also sometimes referred to as the Maui' s sire. It' s not surprising that some of the heroic deeds normally attributed to Maui are passed on to his dad in some places under one name or another.

In one or two groups Mafuia, an ancestor of Maui, is named as a firefinder. Maui is the one who pulls the Mafuia out of the fire. Maui is the name of the discovery of the fire in Polynesia, either after one of its common name or after his fathers or his ancestors - with a few exception.

Hawaii' s history of fire discovery is one of the least wonderful of all heralds. Maui saw one mornings that the great storms of the ocean had subsided and the fishery was easy to reach. And he woke his brethren and hurried to the shore with them.

That was in Kaupo on the Isle of Maui. Maui, however, looking landwards, saw a fire on the side of the hills. "His brethren answered. As they came ashore, Maui jumped out and ran up the side of the hill to get the fire. However, when Maui stormed the cloud of smoky air, he saw a large bird community scrape out the fire.

The Maui and his brethren were watching the fire every single working night - but the curled Alae ("birds" or "mud-jumpers") did not make a fire. Eventually the brethren went back to fish - but when they saw the hill, they saw fire and fumes again. He suggested to his brethren to go fish and let him observe the fowls.

When one or two were left, or when everyone was waiting in the country, there was no fire - but the twilight that saw the four brethren in the ship also saw the fire in the country. Eventually Maui wrapped some kpa sheet and put it into one end of the kayak so that it looked like a man.

Then he hid near the grouse while his brethren went fish. And just as old Alae began to choose poles to make the flame, he quickly jumped out and captured them and kept them there. "Maui would promise to save her own lives if she told him what to do.

It was the avocet who asked the demigod to grate the stems of the aquatic herbs. And then she said to him to grate the reed - but they curved and cracked and couldn't make a fire. "Maui worked really well, but there was no fire. but they just got warmed up.

Their throat twist was restarted and kept repeating until the partridge was almost extinct and Maui had tried to do it, trees by trees. Finally Maui found fire. The Maui competition with the Grouse is another of Hawaii's legends, a little further up-country from the city of Hilo on the island of Hawaii.

This is where Maui wanted to find out the mystery of fire. And Maui said to his mom that he would stay with them until he learnt the mystery of fire. He followed the flock of flocks of birds from place to place as they ran away from him, and found new places where they could make their beames. Finally they came to the Isle of Oahu.

" Maui' s mom Hina had trained him to know the firemaker. "Whenever Maui came near the firemen, he would look for little Alae. The fire was dispersed and the younger fowl tried to pull its bananas out of its coal and escape, but Maui grabbed it and began to turn its throat.

He shouted and warned Maui not to be killed, otherwise he would completely loose the mystery of the fire. It was said to Maui that the fire was made from a bun. Maui was hoping for an unsupervised instant in which he could get away, but Maui was very alert and also very furious when he realized that grating only led to pressing it out.

Then, he turned the bird's throat and was asked to grate the trunk of the taroplant. He was so furious that he almost wiped the bird's skull - and the feared-for his own existence, he spoke the truths and instructed Maui on how to find the firewood in which the fire lived.

You learnt to pull out the sparkles that are released in different tree species. There is a similar story about the Society Islands. Maui and Ina (Hina) agreed to help Maui find fire for the people. Maui trotted down the long frying pan quickly until he found the deity.

And Maui asked him for fire to take on the men. Maui put out the fire and went back after the fire. Then he took two rods of dried timber, gave the undergrowth to the birds and quickly dragged the top rod over the undergrowth until fire came, Maui grabbed the top rod after it had been burnt in the fire, and burnt the bird's brow behind each one.

But Maui knocked down the Lord and thought he had murdered him and took away the skill of making fires. Maui hurried back to the fire well and let the mind go back to the torch - then he came back to Ina, said goodbye and took the fire staffs to the High School.

When Maui brought the Lord back into our minds, he was to restore the mind that had been set free by deaths. That'?s the same as the second name in Maui Ki'i-ki'i. Samoan Ti'iti'i is almost the same as the New Zealand fire myth of Maui and is very similar to the history of the Hervey Islands of Savage Iceland, Tokelau and other archipelagos.

Maui' s or Ti'iti'i's sire Talanga (Kalana) was also a inhabitant of the underworld and a great fan of the seismic deity. He walked through a cavern until he found his dad in the underworld. His amazed dad, who learned how his boy came, asked him to stay very still and work so that he would not provoke the wrath of Mafuie.

Mafuie' s dad said it was the fire's fumes and said what the fire would do. The Mafuie gave him a light to take it to his dad. Finally Ti'iti'i took one of Mafuie's poor and stopped it. Then, the Lord promised to instruct him in the mystery of fire discovery to bring it to the higher worlds.

A Hervey Island myth says that Maui and his brethren had lived on raw foods - but they learnt that their mothers sometimes had tasty cooks. While Maui was planning to pursue it, he first examined the shapes of those that he might consider to be the fittest and most ardent.

If Maui were to be thrown into the heavens by the mighty branches of the Lord, the Fire Lord would agree to give fire to him. And Maui accepted on the proviso that he had the right to cast the Fire Lord afterwards. Then he grabbed Maui in his powerful arm, swung him back and forth and threw him up - but when Maui got out of his hand, he turned into a pen and hovered gently to the floor.

Then, the kid ran to the Lord, grabbed his feet and picked him up. And Maui asked about the mystery of fire making. He learned him how to grind the dried rods of certain species of wood together and create fire by frictional action, and above all how to create fire by grating fire rods in the subtle powder of the banayan.

According to a Society Island myth, Maui lent a holy little dove, which belongs to one of the deities, and this dove ridden through a dark cliff in Avaiki (Hawaiki), the Tierra del Fuego of the underworld. Mau-ika, the fire-god, was found in a building in a bana plant.

It was Mau-ika who instructed Maui on the types of firewood a fire-dweller threw sparkles into to keep the fire alive. "He also learnt how to make fire by moving quickly when you rub the bushwood. Maui was vicious and malicious and set fire to the Panyanhaus, then put on his dove and ran to the uplands.

Tokelau Islanders say that Talanga (Kalana), known in other archipelagos as the sire of Maui, wanted fire to ensure heat and cuisine. Said he wanted to bring the fire back to the men. It also teaches him how to prepare meals - and also the kind of seafood he should prepare and the kind that should be consumed uncooked.

Savage Island myth is adding the threat factor to Maui's malicious fire thievery. Then the boy followed his dad one of these days and saw him pulling up a few reed beds and descending into Tierra del Fuego. And Maui hurried to see what his dad did. The young burglar's dad saw him and tried to stop him.

He walked up the corridor through the dark cavern - shrubs and shrubs lined his avenue. Maui' s dad rushed after his boy and was almost willing to put his hand on him when Maui burned the shrub. but Maui accelerated his path. New Zealand legend imagines Maui extinguishing all his people's fire in one single city.

He liked to hurry down the cavern trail to the Mahuika home and ask for fire for the Overworld. It was Maui's idea. And Maui ran up to the top class, but the fire was faster. Maui then turned into an hawk and blew up into the sky, but the fire and fumes still followed him.

On the eve of their downfall, Maui appealed to the deities to show. However, to rescue the fire for the people, she fleeing thrown sparkles into different types of tree where the rains could not touch them, so that the fire, when needed, could be reintroduced into the earth by scraping the firerods.

Chatham Islanders give the following mantra, which they said was used by Maui against the violent fire tide that persecuted him: "The Savage Island myth puts Maui in the position of firemaker. But Maui ignites the shrubs along the way until a big fire breaks out and chases him into the Overworld.

There are some legend that make Maui both a fire instructor and a firefinder. He/she will teach people how to use hard wood poles in the delicate, arid powder on the rind of certain saplings, or how to use the delicate fiber of the treetree to capture flames. Occasionally man was sacrificed on the holy twigs of this Fire Lord Christmas table.

On the Bowditch or Fakaofa Isles, the Fire Dragoness did not only teach the way to make fire by rubbing, but also which seafood should be boiled and which should be consumed uncooked. Some of the legends of Maui, the rogues who find fire, are narrated from the side of the rolling waves, while the locals of many isles lie around their shells, in the shadow of the wide branches and thick leaves of the bannyan and other fire-producing saplings.