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of the correct knowledge the natives had arrived at regarding the 
form of the island, long before its outlines were represented on a map. 
The legend of Maui’s fishing exploit is only one of the many 
traditions about Maui which constitute the Maui mythos, as it is 
disseminated over the Tonga, Samoa, Tahiti, and Hawaii groups. 
According to an other tradition a pigeon, into which Maui put his 
spirit , flew to heaven with a line in its beak and assisted in ele- 
vating the land above the water; and Maui tied the sun to the 
earth, with the ropes which have since become the sun’s rays. 
As Maui could not prevent the sun going down, he tied it to the 
moon , and from this cause it results , that when the sun sets , the 
moon is pulled up at the other side of the earth. To these tradi- 
tions on the creation others about the discovery of, and the immi- 
gration, to New Zealand are attached. 
All over New Zealand , the natives state that their ancestors 
migrated to the country from a place called Hawaiki, situated 
to the East or Northeast of New Zealand. 1 The motives which 
caused the New Zealanders to migrate from Hawaiki, are not for- 
gotten. There is a tradition that a civil war in Hawaiki caused 
a chief named Ngaliue to flee from the country, who after a long 
voyage arrived at Tuliua, an island on the East Coast of North 
Island. Thinking himself pursued by the enemy, he continued his 
flight as far as Aotearoa . 2 In order to be perfectly safe he pro- 
ceeded along the coast as far as Arahura (on the West Coast of 
South. Island) , where he discovered the highly prized punamu-stone. 
On his return voyage he touched Wairere, Tauranga, Whanga- 
paroa, points on the East Coast of North Island, and thence he 
sailed straightway to Hawaiki, bearing the tidings of the glorious 
country inhabited only by the gigantic bird Moa, and abounding 
1 Allusion is also made by the natives in their traditions on this subject to 
distant and a larger Hawaiki, and a nearer or smaller Hawaiki. 
2 Aotearoa is a second mythical Maori name for North Island, which is some- 
times applied to the whole New Zealand group. Aotea in the first place is the name 
of one of the canoes, which, as the legend goes, came from Hawaiki, and is equi- 
valent to glaring light, sun-light; roa signifies long, big, large, hence aotea-roa big 
glaring light. 
