How Maui Slowed the Sun — Oceania & Pacific (Well-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we go back out into the Pacific for the second great deed of Māui — the one that gave the world its long afternoons. In the old days the sun ran across the sky so fast that nothing could ever be finished: the food was never cooked through, the nets were never mended, and everyone was tired and behind. So Māui and his brothers plaited rope for weeks, travelled east only by night, and waited in the dark at the pit where the sun comes up.
Polynesian tradition, told across the Pacific — among the Māori of Aotearoa, in the Cook andSociety Islands, and in Hawai'i, where the deed is set on…
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