Maui, folk hero and demigod of trickery.

Maui was a powerful trickster god and a legendary folk hero. A son of the god Makeatutara, son of Tangaroa, and a human woman, Hina, he performed many deeds to improve the lives of humans, such as making the sky higher and the day longer. Endowed with magical powers, this small but exceedingly strong god and culture hero tried but did not succeed in achieving immortality. However, his pursuit for power, strength, wanting to create a better world for his people, and his defiance of the goddess of death, Hina, made him an inspiration to many people and adventurers in Hungola. Maui saw that his people were in distress from creatures and people that would raid from the east of Hungola, so he fashioned a magic hook from his grandmother’s jawbone. He pierced the ground and pulled the earth up to create mountains, separating them from the creatures and bandits. On another occasion Maui was out walking and came upon a girl who complained that the sky was so low it kept falling on her and preventing her from doing her chores. Eager to impress the girl, Maui pushed hard and succeeded in raising the sky In order to give people more hours of daylight to tend their gardens, cook their food, and make cloth, Maui made the days longer. With the help of his brothers, he caught the sun in a net and beat it with his grandmother's magic jawbone. The sun was so bruised and bloodied by this battering that from that time on it could only limp slowly across the sky. Kuna Loa was an evil serpent who was angry at Maui’s mother, Hina, for not accepting his proposal to live with him. Although Maui had driven him away previously, Kuna Loa still longed for her, deciding that if he couldn’t have her, no one could. He appeared at the cave she lived in and created a diversion of water to flood and drown her in it. Maui, seeing the warning cloud above the cave from the slopes of the Mari Mounts, grabbed his brothers to help save her. Maui fought and defeated the serpent, killing it with a magical axe. He cursed the offspring of Kuna Loa, having them be used as training fodder for the future generations.