Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina

by W. D. Westervelt

INDEX

• Akea or Atea, see Wakea, [41]
• Akalana, or Ataranga, [3], [4], [166]
• Alae birds, [12], [18], [27], [62], [65], [120], [123]
• Alae-Huapi, [120]
• Alae-nui-a-Hina, [123]
• Ao-tea-roa, [23], [93], [106], [108], [128], [137]
• Aumakuas, [26]
• Ava-iki, or Hawa-i-ki, [5], [37], [41], [52], [72], [137]
• Awa, [8]
• Axe, stone, [93], [94]
• Bailing dish, [123]
• Bananas, [45], [64]
• Banyan, [56], [71]
• Barbs, spears, [79], [101]
• Birds, [85], [110], [112], [135], [144]
• Bird-machine, [125]
• Birds, painted, [85], [112]
• Black rock, [32], [48]
• Boiling pots, [100], [152]
• Bones, fish hooks, [15], [83]
• Brittany, [57]
• Bua-Tarana-ga, [5]
• Cain and Abel, [89]
• Calabash, [19], [31], [84], [115]
• Cannibalism, [91], [93]
• Canoe, Maui's, [28], [118], [150]
• Cats-cradle, [86]
• Cloud, Maui's-ao-opua, [150]
• Coco-nut Island, [19], [26]
• Cook, Captain, [7]
• Cooking the rain, [163]
• Coral, [29]
• Creation, [4], [80], [86]
• Crocodile, [148]
• Death, [25], [38], [67], [82], [137], [170]
• Death chant, [138]
• Dog, [80], [102]
• Dragon, [97], [148], [153]
• Earth twisted, [12], [15]
• Eclipse, [42], [158]
• Eel, [7], [33], [83], [94], [130]
• Eel baskets, [79], [102]
• Eight-eyed, [83], [124]
• Ellis, William, [84]
• Egypt, [44]
• Evolution, [85], [103], [109], [132]
• Fairies, [113]
• Fire-finding—
• Australia, [59]
• Bowditch Islands, [76]
• Chatham Islands, [75]
• De Peysters Islands, [59]
• Hawaii, [61], [120]
• Hervey Islands, [67], [70]
• Indians, [57]
• New Zealand, [67], [74], [88]
• Peruvians, [59]
• Samoa, [67], [70]
• Savage Islands, [67], [72]
• Society Islands, [66], [72]
• Tartary, [59]
• Tokelau Island, [67]
• First man, [89]
• Fishing up islands—
• Hawaii, [14], [18], [26]
• Hervey Islands, [26]
• New Hebrides, [25]
• New Zealand, [19], [88]
• Samoa, [24]
• Tonga, [24], [28]
• Fish hooks, [12], [15], [20], [26], [81], [118]
• Fish nets, [81]
• Flood, [25]
• Flying machine, [125]
• Forbes, Rev. A. O., [42]
• Fornander, A., [83]
• Ganges, [154]
• Gilbert Islands, [34], [60]
• Gill, W. W., [36]
• Gray, Sir George, [7], [20], [23], [49], [101], [110]
• Green stone, [110], [134]
• Guardian of under-world, [4], [5], [17], [70]
• Hades, [129]
• Halai hills, [64], [155]
• Hale-a-ka-la, [7], [13], [32], [43], [62], [143]
• Hale-a-o-a, [76]
• Hau tree, [102]
• Hau spirit, Preface
• Haumia-Tiki-Tiki, [34]
• Hawa-iki, [5], [35], [37], [137], [154]
• Hawaii-loa, [29]
• Hawke's bay, [28]
• Hele-a-ka-la, [122]
• Hercules, [53], [112]
• Hervey Islands, [4], [5], [10]
• Hide-and-seek, [10]
• Hilo, [7], [19], [26], [64], [129], [147], [155]
• Hina, [5], [7], [10], [12], [18], [45], [61], [64], [121], [139]
• Hina-a-ke-ahi, [3], [27], [157]
• Hina-a-ke-ka, [123]
• Hina-a-te-lepo, [91]
• Hina-Kulu-ua, [157], [161]
• Hina-uri, [101]
• Hine-nui-te-po, [23], [123], [133]
• Hina's daughters, [156]
• Horizon or heaven, [107]
• Human sacrifices, [159]
• Hump-back, [125]
• Huna, [166]
• Iao, [43]
• Ie-ie, fiber, [125]
• Iiwi, [113]
• Ika-o-Maui, [23]
• Ili-ahi, [66]
• Immortality, Maui, [128]
• Imu, oven, [159]
• Ina, see Hina, [5], [66], [142]
• India, [154]
• Indians, fire-finding, [57]
• Indians, snaring sun, [54]
• Ira Waru, [101]
• Kaahumanu, [143]
• Ka-alae-huapi, [120]
• Kahai chant, [169]
• Ka-iwi-o-Pele, [18]
• Kalakaua, [8]
• Kalana-Kalanga, see Akalana, [3], [4], [60]
• Kalau-hele-moa, [45]
• Kamapuaa, [83]
• Kanaloa, [5], [24], [29], [120]
• Kane, [35], [119], [135]
• Kane's cave, [119]
• Kauai, [26]
• Kauiki, or Kauwiki, [7], [12], [26], [143], [168]
• Kaula Island, [26]
• Kipahula, [18]
• Ki-i-ki-i, [6], [32], [143]
• Kite-flying, [87], [112], [128]
• Ko, spade, [94]
• Kohala, [28]
• Koolau, [44]
• Ku, [5]
• Kualii, [12]
• Kuna, see Tuna, [7], [99]
• Ku-olo—Kele, [125]
• Ku-ula, fish god, [140]
• La, or Ra, [5], [44]
• Langi, Lani, [34]
• Lahaina, [32]
• Lasso, [47], [51], [80], [144]
• Lifting the sky—
• Ellice Islands, [33]
• Gilbert Islands, [34]
• Hawaii, [31]
• Hervey Islands, [36]
• Manahiki, [35]
• New Zealand, [34]
• Samoa, [32]
• Liliuokalani chants, [3], [8], [17], [27], [40]
• Long Eel, [92]
• Lono, [34]
• Ma-eli-eli hill, [120]
• Magic fish hook, [82]
• Mahui, Mahuika, Mafuia, [5], [60], [68], [73], [132]
• Mahina, or Masina, [166]
• Mamo bird, [114]
• Manahiki Islands, [24], [80]
• Maori, [28], [34]
• Marama, or Malama, [166], [171]
• Marshall Islands, [60]
• Maru, [89]
• Mauna Kea, [13]
• Maui Akalana—
• Akamai, [78], [82]
• baptized, [10], [133]
• birth, [6]
• bird or insect, [9], [10], [20], [24], [71], [114], [144]
• brothers, [3], [6], [14], [22], [24], [78], [107]
• canoes, [28]
• children, [82], [93], [137]
• creation, [4], [80]
• death, [25], [26]
• Hawaii, [130]
• Hervey Islands, [131]
• New Zealand, [137]
• Samoa, [131]
• eight-eyed, [83]
• footprints, [25], [33]
• god or demi-god, [4], [148]
• home, [4], [7], [10], [31], [119]
• hook, [12], [15], [19], [26], [28]
• of the malo, Preface
• prophet, [84]
• sister, [6]
• the swift, [64], [117], [121]
• uncles, [8]
• Maui-Mua, or Rupe, [106], [125]
• Maui Hope, [124]
• Maui Waena, [3], [124]
• Mercury, [11]
• Moemoe, [48]
• Mo-o, [41], [97], [99]
• Moon, [41], [89], [134]
• Moon, Hina the goddess, [147], [156], [165]
• Motu, or Mokua Hina, [170]
• Mudhen, [120]
• Muri, [48], [50]
• Nauru Islands, [171]
• New Heavens, [107]
• New Hebrides Islands, [25]
• New Zealand, [4], [5], [7], [9]
• Niu Islands, [33]
• Oahu legends—
• Maui and the two gods, [119]
• How they found fire, [120]
• Maui catching the sun, [122]
• Uniting the islands, [123]
• Maui and Pea-pea, [124]
• Obsidian, [109], [134]
• Ohia trees, [80]
• Olona, [81], [114], [117]
• O-o, spade, [94]
• O-o, bird, [114]
• Paoa, [29]
• Papa, [34]
• Payton, [25]
• Pea-pea, the eight-eyed, [124]
• Pearl Harbor, [123]
• Peruvians, [59]
• Pictographs, [165]
• Pigeon, [9]
• Pimoe, [18]
• Pohakunui, [64]
• Prometheus, [57]
• Puka-a-Maui, [151]
• Pumice stone, [38]
• Puna, [166]
• Puu-o-hulu, [119], [123]
• Ra or La, sun-god, [5], [44]
• Rainbow Falls, [8], [26], [99], [147]
• Raro Tonga, [6], [24]
• Roko, [97]
• Rongo, [34]
• Ru, [5], [35]
• Rupe, Maui-mua, [106], [125]
• Samoa, [5], [24], [29]
• Sandalwood, [66]
• Savage Islands, [74]
• Savaii, [29], [129]
• Scorpion, [26]
• Serpent, [33]
• Sharks, [18], [123]
• Short days, [143]
• Sina, see Hina, [96], [143], [166], [171]
• Snaring the sun—
• Fiji, [54]
• Hawaii, [42], [122], [144]
• Hervey Islands, [52]
• Indians, [54]
• New Zealand, [48]
• Samoa, [143]
• Society Islands, [41], [50], [53], [143]
• Tonga, [40]
• Snow, [89]
• Society Islands, [5]
• Spears, [81]
• Spirits, islands of, [129]
• Stone implements, [86], [93], [110]
• Sun, created, [41]
• Supporter of the Heavens, [37]
• Tabu, [102], [126]
• Tahiti, [76], [86]
• Talanga or Kalana, [5], [68]
• Tane, see Kane, [35]
• Tangaroa or Kanaloa, [6], [24], [25], [34], [66]
• Tapa, [11], [13], [42], [62], [116], [119], [122], [141]
• Taro, [121]
• Tattooing, [80], [104], [136]
• Tawhiri, [35]
• Te-ika-o-Maui, [23]
• Ti leaves, [125]
• Ti-i-Ti-i}
  } Kii-Kii, [6], [25], [32], [34], [60], [68]
• Tiki-Tiki}
• Tini-rau, [106], [108]
• Tokelau Island, [67]
• Tonga, [28], [40], [89], [129]
• Tonga-iti, [41]
• Tracey Islands, [33]
• Tu or Ku, [35]
• Tuna or Kuna, [91]
• Fiji, [91]
• Hawaii, [99], [148]
• Hervey Islands, [154]
• New Zealand, [92]
• Samoa, [96]
• Turner, [24]
• Ulua, [12], [18]
• Under-world, [4], [9], [15], [51], [68], [129]
• Uniting the islands, [123]
• Upolu, [25]
• Vatea, or Wakea, [41]
• Vatupu Islands, [33]
• Waianae, [65], [119]
• Waikuna, [100], [148]
• Wailuku, [7], [26], [80], [140], [146]
• Waipahu, [125]
• Waipio, [115]
• Wakea, Vatea, Atea, [4], [41]
• Water of life, [134]
• White, John, [87], [96], [101], [132]
• Wife of Maui, [91], [124], [137], [156]
• Wiliwili tree, [44]
• Winds, [86], [115]
• Woman in the Moon, [165]