MAUI SNARING THE SUN

Legends of Maui
–A Demi-God of Polynesia and His Mother Hina
by W. D. Westervelt
[1910]

“Maui became restless and fought the sun
With a noose that he laid.
And winter won the sun,
And summer was won by Maui.”

–Queen Liliuokalani’s family chant.