One deity with this name carries the world on his shoulders and every time he moves, it causes earthquakes.
One deity with this name carries the world on his shoulders and every time he moves, it causes earthquakes. Another god with this name is thrown into the sea as an infant where he is enveloped by seaweed and raised by his divine ancestor Rangi. According to another legend a deity with this name has to capture the attention of his grandmother to rope the sun and does so by stealing the bananas she is preparing. That mythical figure is the son of Hina and Akalana and his prowess as a fisherman allows him to pick up the ocean floor and create a series of islands in the Pacific. For ten points identify this Polynesian trickster god, the namesake of Hawaii's second largest island.
One deity with this name carries the world on his shoulders and every time he moves, it causes earthquakes.
{Maui}