Maori Retell Story

A long time ago the sun started to move quickly across the sky. The people on the ground began to question the sun and why it was doing “He aha me mahi koutou i tenei i nga ra e ki poto, me te ko nga po ki te roa. e kore e tatou kua whiwhi nui rā, a tara mate ratou hohoro. mutu koa tenei tito”. (Translation=) Why must you do this the days are too short and the nights are too long. Our crops are not getting enough sunlight and they could die soon. Please stop this nonsense. But the sun did not listen and started bribe them and control them, "Ki te meatia e koutou te mea he mea ahau e neke āta ano ahau puta noa te rangi, engari ki te kahore e kore ai koe e kite ano te awatea!" (Translation=) “if you do what I say I shall move across the sky slowly again, but if not you might never see daylight again!” The village council held a meeting. We must if we do not are crops will die and we will have nothing to eat. No I think we should gather a team of brave warriors to the resting place of the sun and spring a trap on him and force to move more slowly again, I agree, yes we must. Good thats settled I shall get the team.

The village man searched for the brave warriors he needed to get. Suddenly the man jumped and thought wait a minute I know just the people. He raced up to the top of the village to the hut of Maui (the trickster) and his brothers.  The man knocked on the hut and Maui came out. “Maui we need your help to trap the sun the council wants the bravest men in the village to go right away to the sun’s resting place”. “Ok me and my brothers shall leave soon”. Maui gathered his brothers and started his long journey. He crossed great plains and forests, eventually the ground became hot sandy and cracked he could see the sun's pit in the distance he told his brothers his plan as the got nearer and nearer. Maui told his brothers to build a wall so they can pounce on the sun when it came out of the ground. Maui told his brothers to weave ropes with tightest flax they could find they needed to hold the sun down when they get it. The brothers waited patiently as time flowed away the brothers became restless “when will the sun come out of its dirty hole” “soon we just have to wait”. And so they did they waited and waited, all of a sudden Maui could hear rumbling, and he suddenly felt a lot warmer. And just like that the sun appeared from out of the ground, Maui and his brothers hid close to the rocks they couldn’t be seen or their plan would fail. As the sun floated upwards Maui know it's was time. “Now my brothers” Maui’s brothers flung the ropes over the sun. Maui jumped to his feet and raised the magic jawbone of his grandfather over the sun and started to repeatedly hit the sun untill it was tired and weak he told his brothers to losen the ropes and the sun began to creep slowly across the sky once more.

THE END

Written by: フォレスト =Forrest