Maui and the sun

15 June 2016 Wednesday

Maui and the sun

A long time ago in a country called Aotearoa lived a Maori warrior called Maui. He lived with his brothers and people of his village.

Every day Maui and his villages woke up early in the morning before the sunrise  and enjoyed planting vegetables. They did this to feed themselves and the villagers. The villagers were happy because they had enough food to eat. Maui and his brothers were happy too.

As the time went on the days came shorter and shorter. Maui and the villagers had less time to plant vegetables and fish. There was now less food for them to eat. Maui, his brothers and the villagers became very angry. Maui and his brothers got angry because the sun came out too early. They decided to tech the sun a lesson by catching the sun, and tying it up and hit it. There plan was to use flax ropes to strap the sun up.

One day, they got up very early in the morning to collect flax ropes. After they collected all the flax ropes they went to go search for the sun. They hid behind the rock and waiting for the sun to rise. When Maui saw the sun he said “now my brothers”.They throw the ropes and holed the sun tight. Maui said “hold him tight brothers”. Maui went up to the sun and gave him a patu in the head and Maui was like “ patu,patu and patu” The sun promised not to move so fast across the sky.