Māui And The Giant Fish, Week 1, Day 1

Maori Translation:

Māui me te ika nui
I mohio ahau ki te mahi a Māui i tana raina ika me te muka, he pehea tana korero i tana karakia i te kaha o tana aho ika, me te pehea i whakamahia ai e ia tona kauae tawhito i hoatu e tona tupuna ki a ia, e mau ana ki te raina. I ako ahau mo te hiahia nui o nga tuakana o Māui ki te kai, me pehea to raatau ki te kai, me te hiahia ki te whiwhi i a raatau katoa kia whiwhi ai i nga moni katoa. I mohio ahau ko te whenua o Aotearoa i hangaia no te nui o nga ika nui o ana ika i kii atu ai ona tuakana ki a ratou ano, ka waiho ko te okiokinga anake mo nga rau tau me nga mano o nga tau i hangaia nga whenua o Aotearoa. Na Aedan Gunn 2017


English Translation:

Māui And The Giant Fish

• I learned how Māui had forged his fishing line with strong woven flax, how he recited his karakia giving his fishing line strength, and how he used his ancient jawbone his ancestor had given him, bounding it securely to the line.
• I learned about the enormous greed in which Māui's brothers had towards food, how they were extremely selfish towards food, wanting to earn it all by themselves to get all the credit.
• I learned that the landscape of Aotearoa was formed because of the gigantic parts o giant fish his selfish brothers had claimed for themselves, leaving the rest alone for hundreds and thousands of years forming the landscapes of Aotearoa.  

By Aedan Gunn 2017