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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ui" title="Māui – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Māui" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ui" title="Māui – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Māui" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maui_(mito_de_creaci%C3%B3n)" title="Maui (mito de creación) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Maui (mito de creación)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maui_(mythologie)" title="Maui (mythologie) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Maui (mythologie)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ui_(mytology)" title="Māui (mytology) – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Māui (mytology)" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-haw mw-list-item"><a href="https://haw.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ui" title="Māui – Hawaiian" lang="haw" hreflang="haw" data-title="Māui" data-language-autonym="Hawaiʻi" data-language-local-name="Hawaiian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hawaiʻi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it 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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Polynesian mythological hero and trickster</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Maui_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Maui (disambiguation)">Maui (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p><b>Māui</b> or <b>Maui</b> is the great <a href="/wiki/Culture_hero" title="Culture hero">culture hero</a> and <a href="/wiki/Trickster" title="Trickster">trickster</a> in <a href="/wiki/Polynesian_mythology" title="Polynesian mythology">Polynesian mythology</a>. Very rarely was Māui actually worshipped, being less of a <a href="/wiki/Deity" title="Deity">deity</a> (<a href="/wiki/Demigod" title="Demigod">Demigod</a>) and more of a <a href="/wiki/Folk_hero" title="Folk hero">folk hero</a>. His origins vary from culture to culture, but many of his main exploits remain relatively similar.<sup id="cite_ref-Craighill_Handy_1927:_118_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Craighill_Handy_1927:_118-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Tales of Māui's exploits and adventures are told throughout most of <a href="/wiki/Polynesia" title="Polynesia">Polynesia</a>; they can be traced back as far west as islands off <a href="/wiki/New_Guinea" title="New Guinea">New Guinea</a>. Some exploits common to most Polynesian traditions are stealing fire for humans from the underworld, fishing up islands with his magical hook, and capturing the Sun to lengthen the days.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is a great deal of variation in the representations of Māui from nation to nation, from being a handsome young man, to being an old wise wandering priest.<sup id="cite_ref-Craighill_Handy_1927:_118_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Craighill_Handy_1927:_118-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although Māui was said to be very rascally or "kolohe", many of his deeds were to better the lives of his fellow people. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Māori_mythology"><span id="M.C4.81ori_mythology"></span>Māori mythology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Māori mythology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ui_(M%C4%81ori_mythology)" title="Māui (Māori mythology)">Māui (Māori mythology)</a></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_mythology" title="Māori mythology">Māori mythology</a>, as in other <a href="/wiki/Polynesian_mythology" title="Polynesian mythology">Polynesian traditions</a>, Māui is a <a href="/wiki/Culture_hero" title="Culture hero">culture hero</a> and a trickster, famous for his exploits and cleverness. Māori names of Māui include <i>Māui-tikitiki</i> ("Māui the top-knot"), <i>Māui-tikitiki-a-Taranga</i> ("Māui the top-knot of <a href="/wiki/Taranga_(M%C4%81ori_mythology)" title="Taranga (Māori mythology)">Taranga</a>"), <i>Māui-pōtiki</i> ("Māui the last born"), and <i>Māui te whare kino</i> ("Māui the house of trouble").<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Islands_of_New_Zealand">Islands of New Zealand</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Islands of New Zealand"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Māui's older brothers always refused to let him come fishing with them. One night, he wove for himself a flax fishing line and enchanted it with a <a href="/wiki/Karakia" title="Karakia">karakia</a> to give it strength; to this he attached the magic fish-hook made from the jawbone that his grandmother Murirangawhenua had given him. Then he stowed away in the hull of his brothers' <a href="/wiki/Waka_(canoe)" title="Waka (canoe)">waka (canoe)</a>. The next morning, when the waka was too far from land to return, he emerged from his hiding place. His brothers would not lend him any bait, so he struck himself on the nose and baited the hook with his blood. He pulled up a giant fish which would become the <a href="/wiki/North_Island" title="North Island">North Island</a> of New Zealand, known as <i>Te Ika-a-Māui</i>; the valleys and mountains of the island were made by his brothers chopping up the fish for themselves. In some traditions his waka became the <a href="/wiki/South_Island" title="South Island">South Island</a>, known as <i><a href="/wiki/Te_Waka_a_M%C4%81ui" title="Te Waka a Māui">Te Waka a Māui</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (Other traditions make the South Island the waka of <a href="/wiki/Aoraki_/_Mount_Cook#Māori_history,_legends_and_traditions" title="Aoraki / Mount Cook">Aoraki</a>.) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Māui_brings_fire_to_the_world"><span id="M.C4.81ui_brings_fire_to_the_world"></span>Māui brings fire to the world</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Māui brings fire to the world"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Māui wanted to know where fire came from, so one night he went among the villages of his people and put all the fires out. Māui's mother Taranga, who was their <a href="/wiki/Rangatira" title="Rangatira">rangatira</a>, said that someone would have to ask <a href="/wiki/Mahuika" title="Mahuika">Mahuika</a>, the goddess of fire, for more. So Māui (a grandson of Mahuika) offered to go and find her. Mahuika lived in a cave in a burning mountain at the end of the earth. She gave Māui one of her burning fingernails to relight the fires, but Māui extinguished fingernail after fingernail until Mahuika became angry and sent fire to pursue Māui, who survived only by calling upon <a href="/wiki/T%C4%81whirim%C4%81tea" title="Tāwhirimātea">Tāwhirimātea</a>, the god of weather, to put it out with his rain. Mahuika threw her last nail at Māui, but it missed him and flew into some trees including the <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81hoe" class="mw-redirect" title="Māhoe">māhoe</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Kaik%C5%8Dmako" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaikōmako">kaikōmako</a>. Māui brought back dry sticks of these trees to his village and showed his people how to rub the sticks together and make fire.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Māui_slows_the_sun"><span id="M.C4.81ui_slows_the_sun"></span>Māui slows the sun</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Māui slows the sun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In former days, the sun used to travel quickly across the sky, leaving not enough daylight time for working and eating. Māui proposed to catch the sun and slow it down. Armed with Murirangawhenua's magic jawbone and a large amount of rope, Māui and his brothers journeyed to the east and found the pit where the sun-god <a href="/wiki/Tama-nui-te-r%C4%81" class="mw-redirect" title="Tama-nui-te-rā">Tama-nui-te-rā</a> slept during the night-time. There they tied the ropes into a noose around the pit and built a wall of clay to shelter behind. Tama-nui-te-rā was caught in the noose and Māui struck him with the jawbone until he surrendered and agreed to travel slowly across the sky.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_death_of_Māui"><span id="The_death_of_M.C4.81ui"></span>The death of Māui</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The death of Māui"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Māui's last trick led to his death and involved <a href="/wiki/Hine-nui-te-p%C5%8D" title="Hine-nui-te-pō">Hine-nui-te-pō</a>, the goddess of death and the underworld. In an attempt to make mankind <a href="/wiki/Immortality" title="Immortality">immortal</a> by reversing the natural birth process, he transformed into a worm and entered Hine-nui-te-pō's <a href="/wiki/Vagina" title="Vagina">vagina</a>, intending to leave through her mouth while she slept.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, she was awoken by <span title="Māori-language text"><i lang="mi">pīwakawaka</i></span> (<a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_fantail" title="New Zealand fantail">fantails</a>) who had burst into laughter at the sight of Māui entering her vagina.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Angered, Hine-nui-te-pō crushed Māui to death with the <a href="/wiki/Obsidian" title="Obsidian">obsidian</a> <a href="/wiki/Vagina_dentata" title="Vagina dentata">teeth in her vagina</a>. The story now serves as a <a href="/wiki/Cautionary_tale" title="Cautionary tale">cautionary tale</a> against <a href="/wiki/Rape" title="Rape">rape</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hawaiian_mythology">Hawaiian mythology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Hawaiian mythology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ui_(Hawaiian_mythology)" title="Māui (Hawaiian mythology)">Māui (Hawaiian mythology)</a></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Hawaiian_religion" title="Hawaiian religion">Hawaiian religion</a>, Māui is a <a href="/wiki/Culture_hero" title="Culture hero">culture hero</a> and ancient <a href="/wiki/Alii" class="mw-redirect" title="Alii">chief</a> who appears in several different genealogies. In the <a href="/wiki/Kumulipo" title="Kumulipo">Kumulipo</a> he is the son of ʻAkalana and his wife Hina-a-ke-ahi (<a href="/wiki/Hina_(goddess)" title="Hina (goddess)">Hina</a>). This couple has four sons, Māui-mua, Māui-waena, Māui-kiʻikiʻi and Māui-a-kalana. Māui-a-kalana's wife is named Hinakealohaila; his son is Nanamaoa. Māui is one of the <a href="/wiki/Kupua" title="Kupua">Kupua</a>. His name is the same as that of the <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaiian</a> island <a href="/wiki/Maui" title="Maui">Maui</a>, although native tradition holds that it is not named for him directly, but instead named after the son of the <i><a href="/wiki/Hawai%CA%BBiloa" title="Hawaiʻiloa">Hawaiʻiloa</a></i> ("discoverer of Hawaiʻi", who was named after Māui himself). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Revelator_of_Birds">Revelator of Birds</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Revelator of Birds"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some of Māui's most renowned feats included causing birds (which were invisible to mortal eyes) to become visible. In this long ago, forgotten time, the music of the birds delighted Māui. He observed them with keen interest, their varied and beautiful plumage which adorned the foliage of fragrant trees, and their melodious music, however, no one else could join him in enjoying what was apparent to his vision. For, although Māui's friends could hear their wonderful bird songs, none perceived the true source of the sounds. Māui felt compassion for his friends, for humanity, and their inability to behold with their eyes the colorful, musical creatures as they flitted from tree to tree, so, Māui caused the creatures to become visible to the naked eye.<sup id="cite_ref-westervelt_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-westervelt-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Creation_of_Hawai'i"><span id="Creation_of_Hawai.27i"></span>Creation of Hawai'i</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Creation of Hawai'i"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Māui also is credited with the creation of the Hawaiian islands, when he went on a fishing expedition with his friends, and, using a magic fish hook, pulled up various island groups from the oceanic depths. In some versions of the Hawaiian fisherman story, Māui is said to be a bad fisherman. His brothers would mock him for not catching any fish and he would retaliate with mischievous tricks against them. Māui and all his brothers were sons to a divine father and mother but only Māui was granted miraculous powers, which is why Māui was able to possess this magical hook made from the bones of his divine ancestors. One day, his brothers went fishing but would not permit Māui to join them on the canoe, and this irritated Māui. When they returned, Māui told them that, had he gone with them, they would have caught many more fish rather than just a single shark. His brothers considered his remark and then took him out on their next trip. They asked him where all the "good" fish were. Māui then threw in his magical hook baited with Alae birds, sacred to his mother Hina. The ocean floor began to move and generate huge waves while Māui asked his brothers to paddle fast to accommodate for the oncoming fish. They paddled with great power and were getting tired but Māui told them not to look back because if they did the fish would run away. One of the brothers disobeyed and the fishing line snapped, revealing new islands. Had nobody looked back, there would have been more islands. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_secret_of_fire">The secret of fire</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: The secret of fire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As humans had not yet discovered fire, during Māui's tenure in a land of perpetual volcanic eruptions and fire in the mountaintops, Māui decided that rather than periodically hike for dozens of miles across corals just to obtain glowing embers of the extinguished fires put out the previous night by cold winds, he decided upon a simpler solution. He would bring the fire to him. Māui knew of a tribe of intelligent birds that mastered the art of fire-making. His plan was to capture their leader, and coerce from him the secret of fire. The bird taught him that he should rub certain sticks together in order to produce fire, and this is how the secret of fire was brought to humanity.<sup id="cite_ref-westervelt_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-westervelt-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tamer_of_the_Sun_and_the_Heavens">Tamer of the Sun and the Heavens</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Tamer of the Sun and the Heavens"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Before Māui's involvement in the matter, the Sun (Lā) notoriously traveled on irregular paths in the sky, coming and going unexpectedly at times, which made activities such as farming very difficult for man. To this end, Māui crafted snares made of his hair in order to trap the sun and compel it to travel more slowly and adhere to regular courses of travel. In this manner, Māui regulated the sun's activities for the benefit of mankind.<sup id="cite_ref-westervelt_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-westervelt-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pillar_of_the_Sky">Pillar of the Sky</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Pillar of the Sky"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Similar to <a href="/wiki/Atlas_(mythology)" title="Atlas (mythology)">Atlas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles">Heracles</a> of <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a>, Māui lifted up the heavens, which, for a long time, had lain heavily upon the plants of the Earth, leaving insufficient room for growth and for humanity to move about with ease.<sup id="cite_ref-westervelt_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-westervelt-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tongan_mythology">Tongan mythology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Tongan mythology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Tonga" title="Tonga">Tongan</a> version of his tales, Māui drew up the Tongan Islands from the deep: first appeared Lofanga and the other <a href="/wiki/Ha%CA%BBapai" title="Haʻapai">Haʻapai</a> Islands, and finally <a href="/wiki/Vava%CA%BBu" title="Vavaʻu">Vavaʻu</a>. Māui then dwelt in Tonga. Māui had two sons: the eldest, Māui-Atalanga, and the younger Māui-Kisikisi. The latter discovered the secret of fire, and taught people the art of cooking food: he made fire dwell in certain kinds of wood. Māui-Motu'a bears the earth on his shoulders, and when he nods in sleep it causes earthquakes, therefore the people have to stamp on the ground to awaken him. <a href="/wiki/Hikule%27o" class="mw-redirect" title="Hikule'o">Hikule'o</a>, the deity presiding over <a href="/wiki/Pulotu" title="Pulotu">Pulotu</a>, the underworld, is the youngest son of Māui-Motu'a. Houma is pointed out as the spot where Māui's fish hook caught.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other sources say that in Tonga there were three Māui brothers: Māui-motuʻa (old Māui), Māui-Atalanga, and Māui-Kisikisi (dragonfly Māui), the last one being the trickster. He also got the name Māui-fusi-fonua (Māui land puller) when he begged for the magic fishhook from the old fisherman Tongafusifonua, who lived in Manuka (located to the east on the island of Tonga). Tongafusifonua allowed him to take the fishhook, under the condition that he could find it in his collection of countless hooks. But his wife, Tavatava, betrayed the secret, allowing Māui to pick the right hook. And so he was able to fish up the coral islands from the bottom of the ocean (Volcanic islands are supposed to have fallen from the heavens).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tahitian_mythology">Tahitian mythology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Tahitian mythology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the mythology of <a href="/wiki/Tahiti" title="Tahiti">Tahiti</a>, Māui was a wise man, or prophet. He was a priest, but was afterwards deified. Being at one time engaged at the <a href="/wiki/Marae" title="Marae">marae</a> (sacred place), and the sun getting low while Māui's work was unfinished, he laid hold of the hihi, or sun-rays, and stopped his course for some time. As the discoverer of fire, Māui was named <i>Ao-ao-ma-ra'i-a</i> because he taught the art of obtaining fire by friction of wood.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Before this time people ate their food raw.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> See also <a href="/wiki/Mahuika" title="Mahuika">Mahui'e</a>, Tahitian guardian of fire. </p><p>Māui was responsible for earthquakes.<sup id="cite_ref-Anne_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Anne-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Samoan_mythology">Samoan mythology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Samoan mythology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Ti%CA%BBiti%CA%BBi" title="Tiʻitiʻi">Tiʻitiʻi</a></div> <p>In Samoan mythology, Māui or <a href="/wiki/Ti%CA%BBiti%CA%BBi" title="Tiʻitiʻi">Tiʻitiʻi</a> gave fire to his people. Being the curious and <i>kolohe</i> demigod that he is, Tiʻitiʻi concealed himself closely to a wall that allowed his father, Talaga, to get to work in the <a href="/wiki/Underworld" title="Underworld">underworld</a>. The underworld is home to <a href="/wiki/Mafui%CA%BBe" title="Mafuiʻe">Mafuiʻe</a>, the earthquake god. When Tiʻitiʻi got the chance, he went up to the wall and imitated the voice of his father, saying "O rock! Divide, I am Talaga, I come to work on my land given by Mafuiʻe". As Tiʻitiʻi passed through to the underworld, his father was surprised and told his son to help quietly so he doesn't anger Mafui‘e. While working, Tiʻitiʻi noticed smoke and asked his father where it was coming from. Talaga explained that the smoke was from Mafuiʻes fire. Tiʻitiʻi went to see the god and ask for fire. Mafuiʻe gave him a little bit of the fire; then he quickly built a stone oven, or <i>umu</i>, to put it in. His idea was to cook the taro that they had been harvesting. The god came and blew the fire up scattering the rocks and angered Tiʻitiʻi. As he goes to talk to the god, Mafui‘e was determined to punish Tiʻitiʻi severely for daring to rebel against the power of fire. Their great duel ultimately ended with Tiʻitiʻi triumphant. The young demigod broke off Mafuiʻe's right arm and caught the left arm right after. Scared that Tiʻitiʻi was going to break off that arm, Mafuiʻe pleaded with him to spare the left arm so he could still fulfill his duty of keeping Samoa flat with earthquakes. The god offered him one hundred wives should he spare his left arm. The hero declined; the god offered the secrets of fire that he can take to the upper world. Tiʻitiʻi accepted this offer and learned that the gods had hidden eternal fire in trees, to be extracted by rubbing sticks from the trees together. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mangarevan_mythology">Mangarevan mythology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Mangarevan mythology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the mythology of <a href="/wiki/Mangareva" title="Mangareva">Mangareva</a>, Māui hauls the land up from the <a href="/wiki/Sea" title="Sea">sea</a>, and ties the <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">sun</a> with tresses of <a href="/wiki/Hair" title="Hair">hair</a>. His father was Ataraga; his mother, Uaega. </p><p>There were eight Māui: Māui-mua, Māui-muri, Māui-toere-mataroa, Tumei-hauhia, Māui-tikitiki-toga, Māui-matavaru, Māui-taha, Māui-roto. Māui the eight-eyed (matavaru) is the <a href="/wiki/Hero" title="Hero">hero</a>. He is born from his mother's navel, and is raised by his grandfather, Te Rupe, who gives him a magic <a href="/wiki/Walking_stick" title="Walking stick">staff</a> named <i>Atua-tane</i> and a hatchet named <i>Iraiapatapata</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-tregear_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tregear-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-beckwith_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-beckwith-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/M%C4%81ui" title="Special:EditPage/Māui">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. 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Abandoned by his human parents as a baby, the gods took pity on him and made him a demigod and gave him a magic fishhook that gives him the ability to shape-shift. He went on to perform miracles to win back the love of humanity, each of which earned him an animated tattoo. He is fabled to have stolen the heart of Te Fiti, a powerful island goddess who creates life. The protagonist of the film, <a href="/wiki/Moana_(character)" title="Moana (character)">Moana</a>, persuades him to help her return it. In his song "You're Welcome," composed by <a href="/wiki/Lin-Manuel_Miranda" title="Lin-Manuel Miranda">Lin-Manuel Miranda</a>, Maui mentions and takes credit for several of the deeds he is credited with in folklore. This version of Māui incorporates elements from various <a href="/wiki/Polynesian_narrative" class="mw-redirect" title="Polynesian narrative">Polynesian narratives</a>. </p><p>Māui was also the subject of <a href="/wiki/Israel_Kamakawiwo%CA%BBole" title="Israel Kamakawiwoʻole">Israel Kamakawiwoʻole</a>'s song "Maui Hawaiian Sup'pa Man" in his most well-known album, <i><a href="/wiki/Facing_Future" title="Facing Future">Facing Future</a></i>, which is the highest selling Hawaiian album of all time. </p><p>Māui was included as a playable hero in the video game <i><a href="/wiki/Smite_(video_game)" title="Smite (video game)">Smite</a></i> in October 2022. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hoderi" title="Hoderi">Hoderi</a>, another mythological figure armed with a magical fish hook</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warohunugamwanehaora" title="Warohunugamwanehaora">Warohunugamwanehaora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pandora%27s_Box_(1999_video_game)" title="Pandora's Box (1999 video game)"><i>Pandora's Box</i> (1999 video game)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Footnotes">Footnotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Footnotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">19 January</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Te+Kete+Ipurangi&rft.atitle=How+M%C4%81ui+slowed+the+sun&rft.date=2016&rft.aulast=Grace&rft.aufirst=Wiremu&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Feng.mataurangamaori.tki.org.nz%2FSupport-materials%2FTe-Reo-Maori%2FMaori-Myths-Legends-and-Contemporary-Stories%2FHow-Maui-slowed-the-sun&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AM%C4%81ui" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMercer2017" class="citation book cs1">Mercer, Erin (27 March 2017). "The Gothic in Oceania". In Jackson, Anna (ed.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315695877"><i>New Directions in Children's Gothic: Debatable Lands</i></a> (1 ed.). New York: Routledge. p. 123. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.4324%2F9781315695877">10.4324/9781315695877</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-315-69587-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-315-69587-7"><bdi>978-1-315-69587-7</bdi></a>. <q>In the original myth, when Māui attempted to reverse the natural birth process by entering Hine-nui-te-pō's vagina and exiting via her mouth he was crushed to death between the obsidian teeth of Hine-nui-te-pō's vagina<span class="nowrap"> </span>...</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+Gothic+in+Oceania&rft.btitle=New+Directions+in+Children%27s+Gothic%3A+Debatable+Lands&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=123&rft.edition=1&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2017-03-27&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.4324%2F9781315695877&rft.isbn=978-1-315-69587-7&rft.aulast=Mercer&rft.aufirst=Erin&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.4324%2F9781315695877&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AM%C4%81ui" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilliams2021" class="citation book cs1">Williams, Lewis (4 November 2021). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=HehEEAAAQBAJ"><i>Indigenous Intergenerational Resilience: Confronting Cultural and Ecological Crisis</i></a>. Routledge. p. 20. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-000-47233-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-000-47233-2"><bdi>978-1-000-47233-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Indigenous+Intergenerational+Resilience%3A+Confronting+Cultural+and+Ecological+Crisis&rft.pages=20&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2021-11-04&rft.isbn=978-1-000-47233-2&rft.aulast=Williams&rft.aufirst=Lewis&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DHehEEAAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AM%C4%81ui" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStreiffDundes2017" class="citation journal cs1">Streiff, Madeline; Dundes, Lauren (September 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.3390%2Fsocsci6030091">"From Shapeshifter to Lava Monster: Gender Stereotypes in Disney's Moana"</a>. <i>Social Sciences</i>. <b>6</b> (3): 91. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.3390%2Fsocsci6030091">10.3390/socsci6030091</a></span>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/2076-0760">2076-0760</a>. <q>Disney's story is a twist on traditional lore in which Maui shapeshifts into a worm and then enters the toothed vagina of Hine-nui-te-pō. Maui's invasion prompts her to crush him with obsidian teeth lining her vagina, an object lesson discouraging rape.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Social+Sciences&rft.atitle=From+Shapeshifter+to+Lava+Monster%3A+Gender+Stereotypes+in+Disney%27s+Moana&rft.volume=6&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=91&rft.date=2017-09&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.3390%2Fsocsci6030091&rft.issn=2076-0760&rft.aulast=Streiff&rft.aufirst=Madeline&rft.au=Dundes%2C+Lauren&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.3390%252Fsocsci6030091&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AM%C4%81ui" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-westervelt-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-westervelt_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-westervelt_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-westervelt_9-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-westervelt_9-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWestervelt1915" class="citation book cs1">Westervelt, William (1915). <i>Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology)</i>. 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Tregear, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=9KUTAAAAYAAJ&q=Maui">Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary</a></i> (Lyon and Blair: Lambton Quay, 1891). 1891:235-236).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBuckova2009" class="citation journal cs1">Buckova, Martina (2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/092611369_Buckov%C3%A1.pdf">"VARIATIONS OF MYTHS CONCERNING THE ORIGIN OF FIRE IN EASTERN POLYNESIA"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Asian and African Studies</i>. <b>18</b> (2): 330–331. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211125120051/https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/092611369_Buckov%C3%A1.pdf">Archived</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> from the original on 2021-11-25<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">25 November</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Asian+and+African+Studies&rft.atitle=VARIATIONS+OF+MYTHS+CONCERNING+THE+ORIGIN+OF+FIRE+IN+EASTERN+POLYNESIA&rft.volume=18&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=330-331&rft.date=2009&rft.aulast=Buckova&rft.aufirst=Martina&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sav.sk%2Fjournals%2Fuploads%2F092611369_Buckov%25C3%25A1.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AM%C4%81ui" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Tregear 1891, 194, 235</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Anne-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Anne_13-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSalmond2010" class="citation book cs1">Salmond, Anne (2010). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/aphroditesisland00salm/page/317"><i>Aphrodite's Island</i></a></span>. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/aphroditesisland00salm/page/317">317</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780520261143" title="Special:BookSources/9780520261143"><bdi>9780520261143</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Aphrodite%27s+Island&rft.place=Berkeley&rft.pages=317&rft.pub=University+of+California+Press&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=9780520261143&rft.aulast=Salmond&rft.aufirst=Anne&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Faphroditesisland00salm%2Fpage%2F317&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AM%C4%81ui" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-tregear-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-tregear_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTregear1970" class="citation book cs1">Tregear, E. 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Tregear, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=9KUTAAAAYAAJ&q=Maui">Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary</a></i> (Lyon and Blair: Lambton Quay, 1891).</li> <li>M. Beckwith, <i>Hawaiian Mythology</i> (University of Hawaii Press: Honolulu, 1970).</li> <li>W.D. Westervelt, <i>Legends of Maui</i> (Hawaiian Gazette: Honolulu, 1910).</li> <li>W.D. Westervelt, <i>Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology)</i> (Press of George H. Ellis, Co.: Boston, 1915).</li> <li>E.S. Craighill Handy, <i>Polynesian Religion</i> (The Museum of Polynesian Religion: Honolulu, 1927).</li> <li>Westervelt, W.D. (2010). <i>Legends of Ma-ui: A demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina.</i> Honolulu, HI: The Hawaiian Gazette Co.</li> <li>Westervelt, W. D. (n.d.). V. 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