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(disambiguation)">Maui (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Māui-pōtiki</li><li>Māui-tikitiki</li><li>Māui-tikitiki-a-Taranga</li><li>Māui-tikitiki-o-Taranga</li><li>Māui te whare kino</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Gender</th><td class="infobox-data">Male</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Region</th><td class="infobox-data">New Zealand</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Ethnic group</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_people" title="Māori people">Māori</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #AFEEEE;">Genealogy</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parents</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Makeatutara" title="Makeatutara">Makeatutara</a> and <a href="/wiki/Taranga_(M%C4%81ori_mythology)" title="Taranga (Māori mythology)">Taranga</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Siblings</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Hina_(goddess)#New_Zealand" title="Hina (goddess)">Hina</a> / <a href="/wiki/Hinauri" title="Hinauri">Hinauri</a>, Māui-taha, Māui-roto, Māui-pae, Māui-waho</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Consort</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rohe_(mythology)" title="Rohe (mythology)">Rohe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hina_(goddess)#New_Zealand" title="Hina (goddess)">Hina</a> (sometimes)</td></tr></tbody></table> <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>, <b>Māui</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Culture_hero" title="Culture hero">culture hero</a> and a trickster, famous for his exploits and cleverness. He possessed superhuman strength, and was capable of <a href="/wiki/Shapeshifting" title="Shapeshifting">shapeshifting</a> into animals such as birds and worms. </p><p>He was born premature and cast into the ocean by his mother, where the waves formed him into a living baby. He was discovered by his grandfather and later went to live with his siblings. One day he followed his mother to the underworld where he met his father, <a href="/wiki/Makeatutara" title="Makeatutara">Makeatutara</a>, who baptised Māui incorrectly. As a punishment from the gods for this mishap, Māui and all of humanity were doomed to die. </p><p>Māui is credited with catching a giant fish using a fishhook taken from his grandmother's jaw-bone; the giant fish would become the <a href="/wiki/North_Island" title="North Island">North Island</a> of New Zealand, known as <span title="Māori-language text"><i lang="mi">Te Ika-a-Māui</i></span>. In some traditions, his canoe (<span title="Māori-language text"><i lang="mi"><a href="/wiki/Waka_(canoe)" title="Waka (canoe)">waka</a></i></span>) became the <a href="/wiki/South_Island" title="South Island">South Island</a>, known as <span title="Māori-language text"><i lang="mi"><a href="/wiki/Te_Waka_a_M%C4%81ui" title="Te Waka a Māui">Te Waka a Māui</a></i></span>. </p><p>His last trick, which led to his death, involved the <a href="/wiki/Goddess" title="Goddess">goddess</a> <a href="/wiki/Hine-nui-te-p%C5%8D" title="Hine-nui-te-pō">Hine-nui-te-pō</a>. While attempting to win <a href="/wiki/Immortality" title="Immortality">immortality</a> for mankind, Māui entered her <a href="/wiki/Vagina" title="Vagina">vagina</a>, intent on leaving through her mouth while she slept. However, he was crushed by the <a href="/wiki/Vagina_dentata" title="Vagina dentata">teeth in her vagina</a>, which were made of <a href="/wiki/Obsidian" title="Obsidian">obsidian</a>. </p><p>In myth, Māui constantly breaches <a href="/wiki/Tapu_(Polynesian_culture)" title="Tapu (Polynesian culture)">tapu</a> (ritual restrictions) and his name sounds like <span title="Māori-language text"><i lang="mi">maui</i></span>, meaning 'left-hand side', the side associated with tapu's opposite, <a href="/wiki/Noa_(Polynesian_culture)" class="mw-redirect" title="Noa (Polynesian culture)">noa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-KaiTangata_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KaiTangata-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Names_and_epithets">Names and epithets</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui_(M%C4%81ori_mythology)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Names and epithets"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Māui-tikitiki<sup id="cite_ref-Biggs_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Biggs-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 449">: 449 </span></sup> ("Māui the top-knot")</li> <li>Māui-tikitiki-a-Taranga<sup id="cite_ref-Grey_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grey-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 13">: 13 </span></sup> ("Māui the top-knot of Taranga")</li> <li>Māui-tikitiki-o-Taranga<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> (see above)</li> <li>Māui-pōtiki<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> ("Māui the last born")</li> <li>Māui te whare kino<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. (July 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> ("Māui the house of trouble")</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legends">Legends</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui_(M%C4%81ori_mythology)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Legends"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The offspring of <a href="/wiki/T%C5%ABmatauenga" title="Tūmatauenga">Tūmatauenga</a> increased and multiplied and did not know death until the generation of Māui-tikitiki and his brothers.<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> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Birth">Birth</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui_(M%C4%81ori_mythology)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Birth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Māui is the son of <a href="/wiki/Taranga_(M%C4%81ori_mythology)" title="Taranga (Māori mythology)">Taranga</a>, the wife of <a href="/wiki/Makeatutara" title="Makeatutara">Makeatutara</a>. He was a miraculous birth – his mother threw her premature infant<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> into the sea wrapped in a tress of hair from her topknot (<span title="Māori-language text"><i lang="mi">tikitiki</i></span>) – hence Māui's full name is <span title="Māori-language text"><i lang="mi">Māui-tikitiki-a-Taranga</i></span>. Ocean spirits found and wrapped the child in seaweed and jellyfish.<sup id="cite_ref-Tregear_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tregear-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 233">: 233 </span></sup> His grandfather Tama-nui-ki-te-Rangi then found the child on the beach,<sup id="cite_ref-Tupara_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tupara-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> covered by swarms of flies and gulls, and nourished him to adolescence.<sup id="cite_ref-Grey_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grey-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 13">: 13 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Discovery_of_his_siblings">Discovery of his siblings</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui_(M%C4%81ori_mythology)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Discovery of his siblings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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, <a href="/wiki/Hina_(goddess)#New_Zealand" title="Hina (goddess)">Hina</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Tregear_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tregear-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 233">: 233 </span></sup> The brothers are at first wary of the newcomer.<sup id="cite_ref-Grey_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grey-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 11">: 11 </span></sup> </p><p>Later at night Māui came to his relatives while they were gathered in the marae, dancing and being merry. He crept in and sat down behind his brothers, and soon Taranga called the children and found a strange child, who at first she does not recognise and attempts to cast him from the house, but he proved to be her son. Māui was thus taken in as one of the family.<sup id="cite_ref-Biggs_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Biggs-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 449">: 449 </span></sup> Some of the brothers were jealous, but the eldest addressed the others as follows: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Never mind; let him be our dear brother. In the days of peace remember the proverb, 'When you are on friendly terms, settle your disputes in a friendly way; when you are at war, you must redress your injuries by violence.' It is better for us, brothers, to be kind to other people. These are the ways by which men gain influence – by laboring for an abundance of food to feed others, by collecting property to give to others, and by similar means by which you promote the good of others.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><i>Polynesian Mythology</i> (1854)<sup id="cite_ref-Grey_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grey-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 14">: 14 </span></sup></cite></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Quest_to_find_his_parents">Quest to find his parents</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui_(M%C4%81ori_mythology)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Quest to find his parents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kereru001.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Kereru001.jpg/200px-Kereru001.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Kereru001.jpg/300px-Kereru001.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Kereru001.jpg/400px-Kereru001.jpg 2x" data-file-width="891" data-file-height="1188" /></a><figcaption>Māui took on the appearance of a <span title="Māori-language text"><i lang="mi"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_pigeon" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand pigeon">kererū</a></i></span> when he went to find his parents in the underworld. The white on his chest was his mother's apron.</figcaption></figure> <p>After Māui performed feats such as transforming himself into different kinds of birds, his brothers acknowledged his power and admired him.<sup id="cite_ref-Tregear_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tregear-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 233">: 233 </span></sup> He became vexed that his mother always left before dawn and returned the next night, he one day blocked the entrances and sources of light into their house to keep her there, and stole her clothes. With the sun up, he was able to see where she went every day, and it turned out that she'd pull a clump of tussock from the ground, and descend a large tunnel to the underworld. </p><p>Māui was encouraged to follow their mother to the underworld in the form of a <span title="Māori-language text"><i lang="mi"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_pigeon" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand pigeon">kererū</a></i></span>. Once he arrived there he found a group of people sitting on a patch of grass in a grove of <span title="Māori-language text"><i lang="mi">manapau</i></span> trees,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> from which he dropped berries onto his parents' heads. </p><p>Upon Māui transforming back into a human, his mother recognised him as the child who used to live with her other sons. His father, Makeatutara, then took him to the water to give a baptism, but mistakenly rushed through it, which caused him to stress. </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_(M%C4%81ori_mythology)&action=edit&section=6" 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 the jaw-bone of Murirangawhenua and a large amount of rope, which is in some tellings made from his sister Hina's hair, 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 beat him severely with the jaw-bone until he surrendered and agreed to travel slowly across the sky.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Tregear_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tregear-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 234">: 234 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Māui_fishes_up_the_North_Island"><span id="M.C4.81ui_fishes_up_the_North_Island"></span>Māui fishes up the North Island</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui_(M%C4%81ori_mythology)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Māui fishes up the North Island"><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 <span title="Māori-language text"><i lang="mi"><a href="/wiki/Karakia" title="Karakia">karakia</a></i></span> to give it strength; to this he attached the magic <a href="/wiki/Fish_hook" title="Fish hook">fish-hook</a> made from the <a href="/wiki/Mandible" title="Mandible">jaw-bone</a> that his grandmother Murirangawhenua had given him. Then he hid 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. Māui hauled a great fish, known as <a href="/wiki/H%C4%81hau-whenua" title="Hāhau-whenua">Hāhau-whenua</a>, up from the depths. Thus the <a href="/wiki/North_Island" title="North Island">North Island</a> of New Zealand is known as <a href="/wiki/North_Island" title="North Island">Te Ika-a-Māui</a> (The Fish of Māui).<sup id="cite_ref-Tregear_10-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tregear-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 234">: 234 </span></sup> </p><p>When it emerged from the water, Māui left to find a <a href="/wiki/Tohunga" title="Tohunga">tohunga</a> to perform the appropriate ceremonies and prayers, leaving his brothers in charge. They, however, did not wait for Māui to return but began to cut up the fish, which writhed in agony, causing it to break up into mountains, cliffs and valleys. If the brothers had listened to Māui, the island would have been a level plain, and people would have been able to travel with ease on its surface.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Tregear_10-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tregear-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 234">: 234 </span></sup> </p><p>In Northern Māori traditions of New Zealand, Māui's waka became the South Island, with <a href="/wiki/Banks_Peninsula" title="Banks Peninsula">Banks Peninsula</a> marking the place supporting his foot as he pulled up that extremely heavy fish. Besides the official name of <a href="/wiki/Te_Waipounamu" class="mw-redirect" title="Te Waipounamu">Te Waipounamu</a>, another <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_language" title="Māori language">Māori</a> name for the South Island is <a href="/wiki/South_Island" title="South Island">Te Waka-a-Māui</a>, the canoe of Māui.<sup id="cite_ref-Tregear_10-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tregear-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 234">: 234 </span></sup> In southern traditions, the South Island is known instead as Te Waka o <a href="/wiki/Aoraki_/_Mount_Cook#Māori_history,_legends_and_traditions" title="Aoraki / Mount Cook">Aoraki</a><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and predates Māui's expedition. Māui sailed a canoe called Mahaanui and after he had pulled up the North Island (Te Ika a Maui) he left Mahaanui on top of a mountain in the foothills behind what is now Ashburton. That mountain now bears the name Mahaanui,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the coastline between Banks Peninsula and the Waitaki River is called Te tai o Mahaanui (the tides of Mahaanui). </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_(M%C4%81ori_mythology)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Māui brings fire to the world"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:NgaManawa.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3e/NgaManawa.jpg/200px-NgaManawa.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="236" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3e/NgaManawa.jpg/300px-NgaManawa.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3e/NgaManawa.jpg/400px-NgaManawa.jpg 2x" data-file-width="467" data-file-height="550" /></a><figcaption>Māui stole fire from the fingernails of Mahuika</figcaption></figure><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 <span title="Māori-language text"><i lang="mi"><a href="/wiki/Rangatira" title="Rangatira">rangatira</a></i></span>, 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. Māui transformed himself into a <a href="/wiki/Swamp_harrier" title="Swamp harrier">hawk</a> to escape, but to no avail, for Mahuika set both land and sea on fire. Māui prayed to his great ancestors <a href="/wiki/T%C4%81whirim%C4%81tea" title="Tāwhirimātea">Tāwhirimātea</a>, god of weather, and <a href="/wiki/Whaitiri" title="Whaitiri">Whaitiri-matakataka</a>, goddess of thunder, who answered by pouring rain to extinguish the fire. 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-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Tregear_10-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tregear-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 234">: 234 </span></sup> </p><div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Irawaru,_the_first_dog"><span id="Irawaru.2C_the_first_dog"></span>Irawaru, the first dog</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui_(M%C4%81ori_mythology)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Irawaru, the first dog"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Māui went fishing with <a href="/wiki/Irawaru" title="Irawaru">Irawaru</a>, the husband of his sister <a href="/wiki/Hina_(goddess)" title="Hina (goddess)">Hina</a>. During the expedition, he became annoyed with Irawaru; versions differ as to the cause. In some, Māui was jealous of Irawaru's success at fishing; in others, they disagreed when their fishing-lines became entangled; in still others, Māui was angry at Irawaru's refusal to give him a cloak, or disgusted at Irawaru's greedy nature. Whatever the provocation, when Māui and Irawaru returned to shore, Māui stretched out Irawaru's limbs and transformed him into the first <a href="/wiki/Polynesian_Dog" title="Polynesian Dog">dog</a>. When Hina asked Māui if he had seen her husband, Māui told her to call "Moi! Moi!", whereupon Irawaru, in dog form, came running. Hina, in grief, threw herself into the ocean never to be seen again.<sup id="cite_ref-Tregear_10-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tregear-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 107">: 107 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Quest_for_human_immortality_and_death">Quest for human immortality and death</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui_(M%C4%81ori_mythology)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Quest for human immortality and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After his early exploits, Māui considered himself ready to win immortality for humankind. His father tried to dissuade him, predicting that he will fail because of the mistakes in his baptismal ceremony. His father says to him, "My son, I know that you are a brave fellow and that you have done all things. Yet I am afraid that there is someone who will defeat you." </p><p>"Who could that be?" asked Māui. </p><p>"Your ancestress <a href="/wiki/Hine-nui-te-p%C5%8D" title="Hine-nui-te-pō">Hine-nui-te-pō</a> (Goddess of the Night). You can see her flashing there on the horizon." </p><p>"Is she as strong as the sun?" asked Māui. "I trapped him and beat him. Is she greater than the sea, which is greater than the land? Yet I have dragged land from it. Now let us see whether we will find life or death." </p><p>His father answered, "You are right, my last-born and the strength of my old age. Go, find your ancestress who lives at the side of the sky." </p><p>"What does she look like?" asked Māui. </p><p>"The red flashing in the western sky comes from her," said the father. "Her body is like a human being, but her eyes are <a href="/wiki/Pounamu" title="Pounamu">greenstone</a>, her hair <a href="/wiki/Kelp" title="Kelp">sea-kelp</a>, and her mouth is like a <a href="/wiki/Barracuda" title="Barracuda">barracouta</a>'s mouth."<sup id="cite_ref-Biggs_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Biggs-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 449">: 449 </span></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rhipidura_fuliginosa,_Pines_Beach,_New_Zealand_02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Rhipidura_fuliginosa%2C_Pines_Beach%2C_New_Zealand_02.jpg/200px-Rhipidura_fuliginosa%2C_Pines_Beach%2C_New_Zealand_02.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="184" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Rhipidura_fuliginosa%2C_Pines_Beach%2C_New_Zealand_02.jpg/300px-Rhipidura_fuliginosa%2C_Pines_Beach%2C_New_Zealand_02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Rhipidura_fuliginosa%2C_Pines_Beach%2C_New_Zealand_02.jpg/400px-Rhipidura_fuliginosa%2C_Pines_Beach%2C_New_Zealand_02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1961" data-file-height="1800" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_fantail" title="New Zealand fantail">New Zealand fantail</a>, South Island subspecies. In some versions, small birds like this accompanied Māui on his quest to win immortality for humankind.</figcaption></figure> <p>Māui, undaunted, set out westward, with his companions, to the home of Hine-nui-te-pō. In some versions, his companions are the smallest birds of the forest, the <a href="/wiki/Tomtit" title="Tomtit">tomtit</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Petroicidae" class="mw-redirect" title="Petroicidae">robin</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Grey_warbler" title="Grey warbler">grey warbler</a> and the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_fantail" title="New Zealand fantail">fantail</a>. In other versions, his companions are his brothers. He finds Hine asleep with her legs apart, and he and his companions see sharp flints of <a href="/wiki/Obsidian" title="Obsidian">obsidian</a> and greenstone between her thighs. "Now," Māui tells his friends, "when I go into the body of this old woman, do not laugh at me. Wait until I come out again from her mouth. Then you may laugh as much as you want." </p><p>"You will be killed!" was all the companions could say. </p><p>"If you laugh I will indeed be killed. But if I pass right through her body I will live, and she will die." </p><p>Then he readied himself, winding the cord of his battle club tightly around his wrist and casting aside his garment. As Māui began his task, the cheeks of his watching friends puckered with suppressed laughter. As his head and arms disappear, one of his brothers - or the fantail bird - cannot hold back any longer and burst out in laughter. The old lady wakes, opens her eyes, claps her legs together and cuts Māui in two. Now Māui has become the first being to die and, because he had failed in his task, all human beings are mortal. The goddess keeps her position at the portal to the underworld through which all humans must travel.<sup id="cite_ref-Biggs_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Biggs-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 449–450">: 449–450 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Tregear_10-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tregear-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 234">: 234 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rare_or_localised_legends">Rare or localised legends</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui_(M%C4%81ori_mythology)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Rare or localised legends"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Arrival_in_Bruce_Bay">Arrival in Bruce Bay</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui_(M%C4%81ori_mythology)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Arrival in Bruce Bay"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In south <a href="/wiki/Westland_District" title="Westland District">Westland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ng%C4%81i_Tahu" title="Ngāi Tahu">Kāti Māhaki ki Makaawhio</a>'s Te Tauraka Waka a Maui Marae<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is named in honour of the tradition stating that Māui landed his canoe in <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Bay" title="Bruce Bay">Bruce Bay</a> when he arrived in New Zealand.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Creation_of_Banks_Peninsula">Creation of Banks Peninsula</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui_(M%C4%81ori_mythology)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Creation of Banks Peninsula"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In a tale collected from a <a href="/wiki/Ng%C4%81i_Tahu" title="Ngāi Tahu">Kāi Tahu</a> woman of <a href="/wiki/Lake_Ellesmere_/_Te_Waihora" title="Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora">Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora</a>, Māui threw a <a href="/wiki/Giant" title="Giant">giant</a> to the ocean and then buried him beneath a mountain at <a href="/wiki/Banks_Peninsula" title="Banks Peninsula">Banks Peninsula</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Horomaka_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Horomaka-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The next winter, the giant remained still underneath the mountain, but stirred during summer, which caused the land to split and form <a href="/wiki/Akaroa_Harbour" title="Akaroa Harbour">Akaroa Harbour</a>. Māui would continue to pile earth on top of the giant, and the giant would continue to stir every summer, creating a lake and Pigeon Bay in the process, until finally the giant could not move anymore.<sup id="cite_ref-Horomaka_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Horomaka-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Māui_and_Rohe"><span id="M.C4.81ui_and_Rohe"></span>Māui and Rohe</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui_(M%C4%81ori_mythology)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Māui and Rohe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In a rare version, a goddess named <a href="/wiki/Rohe_(mythology)" title="Rohe (mythology)">Rohe</a> was Māui's wife. He mistreated her in a cruel and unusual way. He wished for her to exchange faces with him because she was beautiful and he was not. When she objected, he recited an incantation over her as she slept. When she awoke and realised what had happened, she left the living world and travelled to the underworld where she became a goddess of death.<sup id="cite_ref-Tregear_10-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tregear-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 421">: 421 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Origin_of_eel-like_fish">Origin of eel-like fish</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui_(M%C4%81ori_mythology)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Origin of eel-like fish"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In one tale, Hina was Māui's wife. Over a period of time where Hina visited a bathing pool, Te Tunaroa, the father of eels, molested her. As revenge, Māui cut Te Tunaroa's body into bits, throwing them into different habitats where they became different kinds of fish; <a href="/wiki/Conger" title="Conger">conger eels</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anguillidae" title="Anguillidae">freshwater eels</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pouched_lamprey" title="Pouched lamprey">lampreys</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hagfish" title="Hagfish">hagfish</a>. </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_(M%C4%81ori_mythology)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1259569809">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-link{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em;vertical-align:middle}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .portalleft{clear:left;float:left;margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0}.mw-parser-output .portalright{clear:right;float:right;margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em}}</style><ul role="navigation" aria-label="Portals" class="noprint portalbox portalborder portalright"> <li class="portalbox-entry"><span class="portalbox-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Draig.svg/32px-Draig.svg.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Draig.svg/48px-Draig.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Draig.svg/64px-Draig.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="713" data-file-height="475" /></span></span></span><span class="portalbox-link"><a href="/wiki/Portal:Myths" title="Portal:Myths">Myths portal</a></span></li><li class="portalbox-entry"><span class="portalbox-image"><span class="mw-image-border noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="flag" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/32px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/48px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/64px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span><span class="portalbox-link"><a href="/wiki/Portal:New_Zealand" title="Portal:New Zealand">New Zealand portal</a></span></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ui_(Hawaiian_mythology)" title="Māui (Hawaiian mythology)">Māui (Hawaiian mythology)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maui_(Mangarevan_mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Maui (Mangarevan mythology)">Maui (Mangarevan mythology)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maui_(Tahitian_mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Maui (Tahitian mythology)">Maui (Tahitian mythology)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maui_(Tongan_mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Maui (Tongan mythology)">Maui (Tongan mythology)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ti%27iti%27i_(Samoan_mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ti'iti'i (Samoan mythology)">Ti'iti'i (Samoan mythology)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whakatau" title="Whakatau">Whakatau</a> - Another mythical Polynesian (Māori) person with a similar birth to Māui.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mauisaurus" title="Mauisaurus">Mauisaurus</a></i> - <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a> <a href="/wiki/Plesiosaur" title="Plesiosaur">plesiosaur</a> named after Maui.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Maui%27s_Dolphin" class="mw-redirect" title="Maui's Dolphin">Maui's Dolphin</a></i> Endemic <a href="/wiki/Dolphin" title="Dolphin">dolphin</a> named after <a href="/wiki/Te_Ika-a-M%C4%81ui" class="mw-redirect" title="Te Ika-a-Māui">Te Ika-a-Māui</a>.</li></ul> <p>Māui is also featured in a number of children’s books by <a href="/wiki/Peter_Gossage" title="Peter Gossage">Peter Gossage</a> including: </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/How_M%C4%81ui_Slowed_the_Sun" title="How Māui Slowed the Sun">How Māui Slowed the Sun</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fish_of_M%C4%81ui" title="The Fish of Māui">The Fish of Māui</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/How_M%C4%81ui_Found_His_Father_and_the_Magic_Jawbone" title="How Māui Found His Father and the Magic Jawbone">How Māui Found His Father and the Magic Jawbone</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/How_M%C4%81ui_Found_the_Secret_of_Fire" title="How Māui Found the Secret of Fire">How Māui Found the Secret of Fire</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui_(M%C4%81ori_mythology)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notes">Notes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ui_(M%C4%81ori_mythology)&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Notes"><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 .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Children who died before they were born (i.e miscarried, premature, aborted, stillborn) were thought to come back as <span title="Māori-language text"><i lang="mi"><a href="/wiki/Atua" title="Atua">atua</a> kahukahu</i></span> (malevolent child <a href="/wiki/Ghost" title="Ghost">spirits</a>),<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> thus possibly explaining part of Māui's supernatural nature.<sup id="cite_ref-Tupara_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tupara-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></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">These trees were said to be from the homelands of the Māori. 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