Maui-tikitiki

DEMIGOD: the culture-hero of the heroic stratum. Entered male / immortal / mythic-prehistoric. Wired to Hina as lover (the Te Tuna cycle). His parents Ataraga and Huahega and his four elder brothers are firmly named but thin, recorded in parentRoles/notes (not authored).

Domains

• trickster culture hero
• the sun and the length of the day
• fire

Powers

• snares the sun with a rope of his mother's hair
• fishes up the land of Havaiki from the ocean floor
• wins fire by slaying the fire-magician Mahuike
• slays the eel Te Tuna (the first coconut springs from his head)

Relations

• lover: Hina
• equated with: Māui-tikitiki-a-Taranga
• equated with: Māui
• equated with: Maui
• equated with: Mahui
• equated with: Maui Kisikisi
• enemy: Te Tuna

Sources

• Stimson, J. Frank. The Legends of Maui and Tahaki (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 127, 1934)
• Stimson, J. Frank. Tuamotuan Legends (Island of Anaa), Part I: The Demigods (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 148, 1937)