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Maui is the only island in Polynesia to be named after a god. Kumulipo, the ancient genealogical chant of the Hawaiians, sings of the demigod Mai who was a mythological half-human sorcerer. "Maui was a prankster on a grand scale who used guile and humor to create some of the most amazing feats of derring-do ever recorded.. A Polynesian combination of Paul Bunyan and Hercules, Maui had adventures known as 'strifes'. He served humankind by fishing up the islands of Hawaii from the ocean floor, securing fire from a tricky mud hen, lifting the sky so humans could walk upright and slowing down the sun god"* with a lassoo from atop Haleakala (House of the Sun). *From "Hawaii Handbook" by J.D. Bisignani (Moon Publications, Inc.)





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