It is said that the blood of this figure made shrimps red. A myth explains that the sky is sometimes dark because this figure raised it with a poker out of anger. After capturing the smallest mud hen, this figure learned the secret of fire, which he obtains from the fingernails of another deity in a different story. He won his wife by using his phallus to defeat the eel Te Tuna. After his birth, he was wrapped in the hair of his mother (*) Taranga and thrown into the sea. He died when birds awoke Hina, whom this figure tried to crawl into in order to obtain immortality
It is said that the blood of this figure made shrimps red. A myth explains that the sky is sometimes dark because this figure raised it with a poker out of anger. After capturing the smallest mud hen, this figure learned the secret of fire, which he obtains from the fingernails of another deity in a different story. He won his wife by using his phallus to defeat the eel Te Tuna. After his birth, he was wrapped in the hair of his mother (*) Taranga and thrown into the sea. He died when birds awoke Hina, whom this figure tried to crawl into in order to obtain immortality. This figure used a lasso made of his sister's hair to slow down the sun and the jawbone of his great-grandmother to fish up some islands. For 10 points, name this Polynesian trickster and namesake of a Hawaiian island.
It is said that the blood of this figure made shrimps red. A myth explains that the sky is sometimes dark because this figure raised it with a poker out of anger.
Maui [or Maui-tiki-tiki-a-Taranga]