Moemoe

Family: the Hawaiian legends · Role: man who ridiculed Maui · First appears: Chapter IV · Maui Snaring the Sun · Part 2

Life events

• Maui chased Moemoe and slew him, changing his body into a long rock.(Chapter IV · Maui Snaring the Sun · Part 2 · 📍 Lahaina)
  • With: Maui
  • “There on the seashore near the large black rock of the legend of Maui lifting the sky he found Moemoe. Then they left the seashore and the contest raged up hill and down until Maui slew the man and ‘changed the body into a long rock, which is there to this day, by the side of the road going past Black Rock.’”

Chapter IV · Maui Snaring the Sun · Part 2

• enemies with Maui “Maui chased this man around the island from one side to the other until they had passed through Lahaina (one of the first mission stations in 1828). There on the seashore near the large black rock of the legend of Maui lifting the sky he found Moemoe.”

Also listed in the Hawaiian legends — Minor Figures

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