How Maui Found His Mother

How Maui Found His Mother PDF Author: Peter Gossage
Publisher: Puffin Books
ISBN: 9780143505204
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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After he is found washed up on the beach as a baby, Maui is brought up by his powerful uncle. But one thing bothers him - other children have mothers, where is his? So Maui goes on a quest to find her.

How Maui Found His Mother

How Maui Found His Mother PDF Author: Peter Gossage
Publisher: Puffin Books
ISBN: 9780143505204
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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After he is found washed up on the beach as a baby, Maui is brought up by his powerful uncle. But one thing bothers him - other children have mothers, where is his? So Maui goes on a quest to find her.

How Maui Found His Father and the Magic Jawbone

How Maui Found His Father and the Magic Jawbone PDF Author: Peter Gossage
Publisher: Raupo
ISBN: 9781869485788
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Maui wonders where his mother goes each evening. One night he follows her and finds she visits his father, and the family is reunited. Maui then meets his grandfather, and secures his jawbone, which has magical properties

Legends of Ma-ui, a Demi God of Polynesia

Legends of Ma-ui, a Demi God of Polynesia PDF Author: William Drake Westervelt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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How Maui Slowed the Sun

How Maui Slowed the Sun PDF Author: Peter Gossage
Publisher: Puffin Books
ISBN: 9780143503392
Category : Maori (New Zealand people)
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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The days seem to pass at a rate too fast to accomplish all his chores. Maui sets out to capture the sun, succeeds, and lengthens the hours of daylight. Suggested level: junior, primary.

How Maui Found the Secret of Fire

How Maui Found the Secret of Fire PDF Author: Peter Gossage
Publisher: Puffin Books
ISBN: 9780143505648
Category : Maori (New Zealand people)
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Maui the trickster wants to know what will happen if he puts out all the fires in his pa. When his people wake they are very angry and Maui must go to the volcano to visit Mahuika, the goddess of fire. Peter Gossage's superbly retold stories of Maui are now New Zealand classics.

How Maui-tiki-tiki-a-Taranga Found His Mother

How Maui-tiki-tiki-a-Taranga Found His Mother PDF Author: Peter Gossage
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780868660776
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 33

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Maui and Other Legends

Maui and Other Legends PDF Author: Peter Gossage
Publisher: Puffin Books
ISBN: 9780143309291
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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"A beautiful collection of artist Peter Gossage's beloved Maori myths, in one stunning volume.Peter Gossage's memorable retellings of Maori oral myths have captivated the children of New Zealand for generations. Their dramatic and distinctive illustrations with minimal yet evocative language form a powerful combination, and each has earned its place among the beloved classics of our literature. These are exciting, magical tales of adventure and intrigue. Several feature the remarkable culture hero Maui - the quick-witted and the trickster - whose exploits include slowing the sun in its course across the sky, fishing up the North Island/Te Ika a Maui, discovering the secret of fire and his attempt to trick the goddess of death and become immortal. Maui and Other Legends contains eight essential legends. In this volume you will find timeless favourites such as How Maui Found his Mother, Battle of the Mountains, Pania of the Reef and many more. The treasury includes- How Maui Found his Mother How Maui Found his Father and the Magic Jawbone The Fish of Maui How Maui Slowed the Sun How Maui Found the Secret of Fire How Maui Defied the Goddess of Death Battle of the Mountains Pania of the Reef"

Legends of Maui: A Demi God of Polynesia and of his Mother Hina

Legends of Maui: A Demi God of Polynesia and of his Mother Hina PDF Author: William Drake Westervelt
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465527176
Category : Hina (Hawaiian diety)
Languages : en
Pages : 171

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Four brothers, each bearing the name of Maui, belong to Hawaiian legend. They accomplished little as a family, except on special occasions when the youngest of the household awakened his brothers by some unexpected trick which drew them into unwonted action. The legends of Hawaii, Tonga, Tahiti, New Zealand and the Hervey group make this youngest Maui "the discoverer of fire" or "the ensnarer of the sun" or "the fisherman who pulls up islands" or "the man endowed with magic," or "Maui with spirit power." The legends vary somewhat, of course, but not as much as might be expected when the thousands of miles between various groups of islands are taken into consideration. Maui was one of the Polynesian demi-gods. His parents belonged to the family of supernatural beings. He himself was possessed of supernatural powers and was supposed to make use of all manner of enchantments. In New Zealand antiquity a Maui was said to have assisted other gods in the creation of man. Nevertheless Maui was very human. He lived in thatched houses, had wives and children, and was scolded by the women for not properly supporting his household. The time of his sojourn among men is very indefinite. In Hawaiian genealogies Maui and his brothers were placed among the descendants of Ulu and "the sons of Kii," and Maui was one of the ancestors of Kamehameha, the first king of the united Hawaiian Islands. This would place him in the seventh or eighth century of the Christian Era. But it is more probable that Maui belongs to the mist-land of time. His mischievous pranks with the various gods would make him another Mercury living in any age from the creation to the beginning of the Christian era. The Hervey Island legends state that Maui's father was "the supporter of the heavens" and his mother "the guardian of the road to the invisible world." In the Hawaiian chant, Akalana was the name of his father. In other groups this was the name by which his mother was known. Kanaloa, the god, is sometimes known as the father of Maui. In Hawaii Hina was his mother. Elsewhere Ina, or Hina, was the grandmother, from whom he secured fire. The Hervey Island legends say that four mighty ones lived in the old world from which their ancestors came. This old world bore the name Ava-iki, which is the same as Hawa-ii, or Hawaii. The four gods were Mauike, Ra, Ru, and Bua-Taranga. It is interesting to trace the connection of these four names with Polynesian mythology. Mauike is the same as the demi-god of New Zealand, Mafuike. On other islands the name is spelled Mauika, Mafuika, Mafuia, Mafuie, and Mahuika. Ra, the sun god of Egypt, is the same as Ra in New Zealand and La (sun) in Hawaii. Ru, the supporter of the heavens, is probably the Ku of Hawaii, and the Tu of New Zealand and other islands, one of the greatest of the gods worshiped by the ancient Hawaiians. The fourth mighty one from Ava-ika was a woman, Bua-taranga, who guarded the path to the underworld. Talanga in Samoa, and Akalana in Hawaii were the same as Taranga. Pua-kalana (the Kalana flower) would probably be the same in Hawaiian as Bua-taranga in the language of the Society Islands.

The Fish of Maui

The Fish of Maui PDF Author: Peter Gossage
Publisher: Puffin Books
ISBN: 9780143505174
Category : Maori (New Zealand people)
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Maui's jealous brothers don't want him to come fishing with them. Maui is cleverer than they are, however, and not only does he trick them, but he catches the best fish of all.

How Maui Slowed the Sun

How Maui Slowed the Sun PDF Author: Suelyn Ching Tune
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824810832
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Recounts how Maui uses his magical powers to slow the path of the sun across the sky, thus allowing crops more time to grow, fishermen more time to fish, and children more time to play.