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What is the meaning behind the myth of maui attacting the sun?
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∙ 13y ago
To summarize the link below in brief for you, it is the Hawaiian version of the Polynesian (and potentially more ancient) version of the creation story insofar as it concerns the sun or sunlight. (I think of the Judeo-Christian creation story of God creating light on the first day of creation.) For Polynesians, apparently the god Maui captured the sun. The story traveled with the Polynesians who first inhabited the Hawaiian islands, and named the island Maui for this god.
The now dormant volcano on Maui called Haleakala literally means house-of-the-sun (hale-a-ka-la with the word "la" meaning sun).
I am thinking that when the islands were first inhabited Haleakala was the tallest mountain (more like 15,000 whereas today after intervening eruptions its around 10,000 ft) on the islands hence naming this island since it was closest to the sun.
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