The Fishhook of Maui (Manaiakalani): Hawaiian Folktale
In the time when the world was young and the great ocean stretched endlessly beneath the heavens, there lived the demigod Māui, the daring son of the goddess Hina. He was clever, strong, and endlessly curious, a trickster and teacher, loved and feared in equal measure by mortals and gods alike. Māui had already performed many wondrous deeds. He had slowed
