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: HinaMaui wins Hina (the wife of the eel Te Tuna) by slaying Te Tuna.Stimson, J. Frank. The Legends of Maui and Tahaki (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 127, 1934), on Maui winning Hina by slaying Te Tuna (secondary)
• equated with: Māui-tikitiki-a-TarangaReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Māui), cognate across the island groups.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• equated with: MāuiReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Māui), cognate across the island groups.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• equated with: MauiReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Māui), cognate across the island groups.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• equated with: MahuiReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Māui), cognate across the island groups.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• equated with: Maui KisikisiReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Māui), cognate across the island groups.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• enemy: Te TunaReciprocal of tuamotuan_te_tuna.enemy (alphabetical family sweep). (auto reciprocal)

Sources

• Maui-tikitiki, the fifth and last-born son of Ataraga and the chiefess Huahega, is the Tuamotuan demigod culture-hero who snared the sun with a rope of his mother's hair, fished up the land of Havaiki, won fire by slaying the fire-magician Mahuike, and slew the eel Te Tuna (winning Hina, the first coconut springing from Tuna's head).: Stimson, J. Frank. The Legends of Maui and Tahaki (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 127, 1934) (secondary); Stimson, J. Frank. Tuamotuan Legends (Island of Anaa), Part I: The Demigods (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 148, 1937) (secondary)