Maru

Family: the New Zealand legends · Role: Maui's foster brother · First appears: Chapter VI · Maui the Skillful · Part 3

Life events

In the New Zealand legend, Maru sent a snowstorm over Maui's field, blighting Maui's crops.(Chapter VI · Maui the Skillful · Part 3 · 📍 New Zealand)
- With: Maui
- “Maru sent a snowstorm over Maui's field. (It would seem as if this might be a Polynesian memory of a cold land where their ancestors knew the cold winter, or a lesson learned from the snow-caps of high mountains.) At any rate, the snow blighted Maui's crops.”
In the New Zealand legend, Maui prayed for rain to destroy Maru's fields in retaliation.(Chapter VI · Maui the Skillful · Part 3 · 📍 New Zealand)
- With: Maui
- “Maui retaliated by praying for rain to destroy Maru's fields.”
In the New Zealand legend, Maui lay in wait for Maru, killed him, and went away to the earth.(Chapter VI · Maui the Skillful · Part 3 · 📍 New Zealand)
- With: Maui
- “But Maui was implacable and lay in wait for his foster brother, who was in the habit of carrying fruit and grass as an offering to the gods of a temple situated on the summit of a hill. Here Maui killed Maru and then went away to the earth.”

siblings with Maui (In the New Zealand legend.) “Here he had a foster brother Maru.”
enemies with Maui (In the New Zealand legend.) “Here Maui killed Maru and then went away to the earth.”

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