Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Legends of Ma-ui--a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina, by W. D. Westervelt This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Legends of Ma-ui--a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina Author: W. D. Westervelt Release Date: May 30, 2010 [EBook #32601] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LEGENDS *** Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Hale-a-ka-la Crater, the House of the Sun. [Pg i] LEGENDS OF MA-UI—A DEMI GOD OF POLYNESIA AND OF HIS MOTHER HINA. BY W. D. WESTERVELT. HONOLULU: THE HAWAIIAN GAZETTE CO., LTD. 1910 [Pg ii] [Pg iii] CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. Maui's Home 3 II. Maui the Fisherman 12 III. Maui Lifting the Sky 31 IV. Maui Snaring the Sun 40 V. Maui Finding Fire 56 VI. Maui the Skillful 78 VII. Maui and Tuna 91 VIII. Maui and His Brother-in-Law 101 IX. Maui's Kite-Flying 112 X. Oahu Legends of Maui 119 XI. Maui Seeking Immortality 128 XII. Hina of Hilo 139 XIII. Hina and the Wailuku River 146 XIV. The Ghosts of the Hilo Hills 155 XV.