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Maui's personality and life story applies to two definitions of trickster from African Mythology A to Z.

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Maui died while on a quest for immortality. He went to kill the goddess of death, but was crushed to death. It is said that the goddess may have been the sister of the goddess who Maui had tricked into giving him all her children. (170)

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Maui was seen as an evil trickster by his father. His father tempted his son by mentioning a goddess that he can't beat. He tries to convince himself that he is doing good when he goes after immortality since the rest of humanity would also get it (170).

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Maui can't control his powers. His emotions get the best of him and make him make rash decisions, like making his brother-in-law a dog, causing his sister to kill herself

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Starts to get reckless with his trickery, messes with divine beings

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"jumped ashore and miraculously turned itself into land that became the islands of New Zealand" (169)

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Maui's brothers would not take him fishing with them because they were afraid of his magical tricks

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-Son of Ataranga (Mother) and Makeatutara (Father)
-Divine Ancestress Tama-nui-te-rangi saved him and nurtured him until he was a teenager
-His mother and four brothers named Maui, sister named Hina

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New Zealand

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Played a thousand tricks on his companions when he was a young boy

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A bunch of islands in the Pacific Ocean

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-found famous exploits
-moved the sun with his brothers
-fished up the sea
-discovered how to make fire
-turned brother in law into a dog

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"The trickster Maui, who fished up the islands of Polynesia using the magic fish-hook Manai-a-ka-lani (“Come-from-the-heavens“), met his match when he tried to force himself upon the sleeping goddess of death Hine-nui-te-po; she woke, and crushed him. Maui had an odd birth: his mother was impregnated by putting on a man’s loincloth and gave birth to a fetus that she wrapped in her top-knot and sent out to sea."

Wilkinson, Philip, and Neil Philip. "Trickster Deities." Mythology, Dorling Kindersley, 2007, pp. 324-329. Eyewitness Companions. Gale Virtual Reference Library, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GVRL&sw=w&u=anna70394&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CCX1803400032&it=r&asid=a79dccc4042a20c13ce58cd8fe358ea9. Accessed 17 Nov. 2016.

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Handbook of Polynesian Theology (pg 93-94)

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Handbook of Polynesian Theology (pg 93-94)

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)"Most Polynesians believe that death entered the world because the great demigod Māuiwas unsuccessful in his quest to gain immortality for humans. Unfortunately, his colossal attempt also brought about his own destruction. Since that time, death has been a natural occurrence among humans, and it appears that the ancient Polynesians accepted death much more readily than many world cultures. In 1789, the British explorer William Bligh observed that “It is astonishing what indifference these People speak of Death—it has even appeared to me that they cared little how short their existence was, they are nevertheless afraid of the final stroke, when by War or accident they have reason to expect it; while in disease they are patient and not alarmed” (Bligh ms., 169)." "Yet, when death did occur, Polynesians held elaborate and lengthy mourning rituals to commemorate one’s passing from this life into the next."

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A Tahitian legend has some elements that are similar to its counterpart in Tonga and Sāmoa and others that are drastically different. The beautiful Princess Hina, it says, was born of the highest-ranking nobility in Tahiti, and the sun and moon gods arranged a marriage between her and the king of Lake Vaihiria in southern Tahiti. On her wedding day, she and her flower-bedecked attendants made their way up into the valley to meet her chosen husband, who turned out to be a monstrous eel. Seeing her prospective husband approach, Hina fled in horror and sought refuge at the home of the mighty heroMāui. He took pity upon the young maiden, baited his fishhook, and caught the eel with his magical fishing pole. Māui then hacked the eel to pieces, wrapped up his head in tapa cloth, and delivered it to Hina with instructions that she should “plant” the head once

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He is tan and very buff.

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Has a sister named Hina