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.
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]