{"id":21498,"date":"2022-07-31T21:20:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T21:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=21498"},"modified":"2022-07-31T21:25:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T21:25:55","slug":"le-maui-qui-attrapa-le-soleil","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/tahitian-mythology-of-the-wind\/the-maui-who-caught-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Maui who caught the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"21498\" class=\"elementor elementor-21498\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8e280b4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8e280b4\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-13f8af5\" data-id=\"13f8af5\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-94d208a elementor-align-justify elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"94d208a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/tahitian-mythology-of-the-wind\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Tahitian Wind Mythology<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d5d1aa9\" data-id=\"d5d1aa9\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9f15f26 elementor-align-justify elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"9f15f26\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tahitiheritage.pf\/legende-maui-soleil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Wiki<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c34a574 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c34a574\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-da5d1bc\" data-id=\"da5d1bc\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8a7f692 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8a7f692\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The feat of the Maui warrior who caught the sun with a net to slow its course and allow fishermen to cook their fish. The star then promised to shine for long days. The original text: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tahitiheritage.pf\/aai-maui-ra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>&#039;\u0100&#039;ai n\u014d Maui o tei m\u0101rei ia R\u0101<\/em><\/a><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9347 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cropped-AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"Maui who caught the sun\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" title=\"\"><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ab52811 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ab52811\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d21395a\" data-id=\"d21395a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a33effb elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a33effb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseprofile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/tahitian-mythology-of-the-wind\/the-maui-who-caught-the-sun\/#Lexploit-du-guerrier-Maui-qui-attrapa-le-soleil\" >The feat of the Maui warrior who caught the sun<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Lexploit-du-guerrier-Maui-qui-attrapa-le-soleil\"><\/span>The feat of the Maui warrior who caught the sun<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-fa8f6e5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"fa8f6e5\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4fd46b8\" data-id=\"4fd46b8\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-294bf33 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"294bf33\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>At the creation of the world, the sun thinks it has been wronged: it is the only one working. He looks at the Earth at his feet and envies its inhabitants who stroll and sleep... The sun then decides to do like them! \u201cAfter all, I am a god,\u201d he said to himself. \u201cMen await my coming and pay me homage, so I can do as I please!\u201d \u00bb<\/p><p>The following days, he gets up very late and only a few moments are enough for him to cross the sky and lie down behind <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/tahitian-mythology-of-the-wind\/\">Moorea<\/a>, for a long, very long night. The darkness is so long that the Earth suffers cruelly from it. There is not enough heat to heat the stone ovens and not enough light to prepare meals.<\/p><p>The young warrior Maui sees his fianc\u00e9e Hina&#039;s lips burst into flames from eating raw food. Anger gives way to sadness in Maui, who then decides to face the sun and defeat it.<\/p><p>Maui goes in search of the biggest lianas, the longest algae and the strongest bark. After making an immense pile, as high as five men, he begins to weave an extraordinary net of lianas, algae and bark. The centerpiece of this work is a long hair of Hina.<\/p><p>During the day, he works in the fast light of the sun. At night, he works by starlight. While the sun, all asleep and in too much of a hurry, hastens to pass through the sky, the net enlarges little by little.<\/p><p>The trap is finally over. Maui takes advantage of the night, throws the net over his shoulder and goes to the reef, at the edge of the large hole through which the sun comes out of the sea. He waits. After a long, very long vigil, he sees a light appear. This grows and colors the waves and the clouds. She is getting stronger and stronger. The birds start to sing.\u00a0<\/p><p>When the first rays appear, Maui throws his net and covers the entire hole. The sun finds itself a prisoner. The sun struggles furiously, but the net holds firm. Twenty times, the star attempts to jump into the sky. Twenty times he was rejected. Twenty times, he tried to go back underground. Twenty times he was detained.<\/p><p>Then the sun begins to heat up so much that the sea begins to boil and the earth begins to crack, all the links of the net burn. Algae, lianas, bark... nothing resists the immense flames. Nothing, except the hair of Hina, Maui&#039;s fianc\u00e9e. The sun may jump, heat up, swell... but it is grabbed by the neck and suffocates. It gradually loses its luster and finally stops, exhausted, defeated.<\/p><p>Then Maui approaches: It is I, Maui, who caught the sun.<br \/>The sun begs: Deliver me, Maui, I&#039;m suffocating.<\/p><p>- No ! I will not deliver you. You remain eternally attached for the harm you did to my bride and my people. Their lips are burned by raw sap and their eyes are filled with night. You remain a prisoner!<br \/>\u2013 Maui, if you don\u2019t give me, I\u2019m going to die and if I die, neither you nor yours will ever be able to live again! Deliver me !<br \/>\u2013 First promise me that our fish and vegetables will be cooked before nightfall!<br \/>- I promise you !<\/p><p>Maui then delivers the sun and the sun leaps into the sky.<\/p><p>It is since that day that the sun rises so early and sets so late. Sometimes, when we watch the sun set, we see a thin green net: it is the hair of Maui&#039;s bride which hangs there so that the sun never forgets its promise...<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mythologie Tahitienne du Vent Wiki L\u2019exploit du guerrier Maui qui attrapa le soleil avec un filet pour freiner sa course &hellip; <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9989,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21498","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21504,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21498\/revisions\/21504"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}