Maui Fishes Up the Land — Oceania & Pacific (Well-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel to the wide blue Pacific, to Aotearoa, for the story of how the youngest of five brothers pulled a whole country up out of the sea. Stowed away in his brothers' canoe, armed with an enchanted jawbone hook, Māui hauls up a vast shining land — and his impatient brothers, unable to leave it be, carve it into the mountains and valleys it wearsto this day. A tale of cleverness, patience, and the shape of the land itself.
Māori tradition, Aotearoa (New Zealand). The fishing-up of the North Island — Te Ika-a-Māui,"the Fish of Māui" — is one of the best-known Māori myths. It was set…
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