the woman (Chapter III)

Family: the Hawaiian legends · Role: a woman who gives Maui a drink · First appears: Chapter III · Maui Lifting the Sky · Part 1

Life events

• In the Hawaiian legend, the woman gave Maui a drink, and he lifted the heavens to their present place.(Chapter III · Maui Lifting the Sky · Part 1)
  • With: Maui
  • “After a long time, according to the Hawaiian legends, a man, supposed to be Maui, came to a woman and said: ‘Give me a drink from your gourd calabash, and I will push the heavens higher.’ The woman handed the gourd to him. When he had taken a deep draught, he braced himself against the clouds and lifted them to the height of the trees. Again he hoisted the sky and carried it to the tops of the mountains; then with great exertion he thrust it upwards once more, and pressed it to the place it now occupies.”

Chapter III · Maui Lifting the Sky · Part 1

• recipient: Maui “The woman handed the gourd to him.”

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Extracted from the original text of Legends of Ma-ui. Made with Rho MD.