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Maui

Maui is a trickster God; he is a rebel, a seducer, and se established hierarchies. Maui was involved in humanity's loss of morality, and revolves around an incident of sexual shaming. Afterwards, Maui went down to Hine-Nui-Te-Po in the underworld(Hine-Nui-Te-Po is the Goddess of the Underworld). He went down there and found the Goddess asleep. He thought that if you killed Hine-Nui-Te-Po you would get immorality. Maui was accompanied by his companions which were birds. He knew that if he entered into her vagina and come out of her mouth he would kill her and get immorality. Meanwhile, all his birds stayed quietexcept for one of the birds. The bird started to laugh which wasnt good. As soon as he started to enter her, she woke up and immediately crushed him inside of her, which killed him.

Maui was also known as a God of the Land. Before he was killed by Hine-Nui-Te-Po, he would go deep sea fishing. In fact, one day he went deep sea fishing with his brothers. They were not catching anything which caused his brothers to fall fast asleep. Then they woke up and caught a huge fish. Immediately, they started to pull the fish up. As a result, they got land that came up with the fish, that is now known as the island Maui. In conclusion, that is how they got their islands.

Willis, Roy. "Maui." World Mythology. Canada: Henry Holt and Company, 1993

Myths of the Sky

The sky and earth are an important part of Oceania. However, the sky is detached from earthly morals. In fact, the sky women came to the earth to dig up red ochre, which they used for body decoration. As a result, thunder, mist, clouds, and lightning descended causing the people to avoid being around that area. As equally important, birds were of magical and spiritual significance to the people.

One day a hunter shot his arrow at a bird and the bird continued to fly. Immediately, he followed the bird to find a human man on a veranda pulling a thorn out of his foot. In the same way, another hunter shot a very colorful bird with an arrow and though he killed it. Come to find out, the bird he thought he had killed was a young woman whom he married.


Willis, Roy. "Myths of the Sky." World Mythology. Canada: Henry Holt and Company, 1993.