Thursday, January 15, 2009

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

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