Maui - the demigod

A DigitalNZ Story by Janice

This is a set of images, audio and videos on Maui and his significance to Māori mythology.

Maui, Māori myths and legends

Maui - as an inspiration for art.

Maui, Ancestor of the Pacific

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Māui

Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage

Māui fighting Tuna

Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage

Māui’s fish hook

Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage

Māui becoming a kererū

Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage

Maui and Mahuika

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Te Ika a Maui

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Maui and Mahuika

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Image: THE FISHING OF MAUI This picture illustrates the Maori myth of the fishing up of New Zealand (in other words, its discovery) by the Polynesian hero and demi-god Maui-tikitiki-o-Taranga. Maui, says the legend, went out m his canoe to fish, and so potent were his incantations and the mana of ids magic hook that he drew up from the ocean depths the Island of New Zealand, which to this day is known as "Te Ika-a-Maui" (The Fish of Maui). The singular tatooing on the faces of Maui and his companion (one of his brothers) is that of the ancient Polynesian design known as Moko-kuri. The picture at the aide, showing Maui hauling up his fish, is that of a very fine carved slab in Mr C. G Nelson'scarved house, "Rauru," which until recently stood at Whakarewarewa, Rotorua The design bordering the picture is that known as taniko the pattern used in endless variety by Maori mat-weavers (Otago Witness, 21 December 1904)

THE FISHING OF MAUI This picture illustrates the Maori myth of the fishing up of New Zealand (in other words, its discovery) by the Polynesian her...

National Library of New Zealand

Maui and the fire goddess

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Legends of Maui

Dittmer, Wilhelm, 1866-1909 :Maui's fight with the sun. [London, Routledge, 1907]

Alexander Turnbull Library

Maui

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Māui chants a fishing karakia

Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage

Other

Māui and his grandfather

Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage

Book

Maui in the South Seas - Legends of the Maori

Victoria University of Wellington

Māui names the land

Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage

Maui captures the Sun

Māui

Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage

I AM Making Movies 3: Maui find his Family

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira

Māui

Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage

Maui's Dolphins

Radio New Zealand

Searching for Maui's Dolphins

Radio New Zealand

Maui as a role model

Research paper

MĀUI : ancestor hero, role model, entrepreneur and model of entrepreneurship

The University of Auckland Library