Payton, the earnest and honored missionary of the New Hebrides Islands, evidently did not know the name…
- Date of account
- Published 1910
- Source
- Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina
- Reference
- Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina · selected passage 7
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English
- Record updated
- 2026-08-25
Record summary
Payton, the earnest and honored missionary of the New Hebrides Islands, evidently did not know the name Mauitikitiki, so he spells the name of the fisherman Ma-tshi-ktshi-ki, and gives the myth of the fishing up of the various islands
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlyPayton, the earnest and honored missionary of the New Hebrides Islands, evidently did not know the name Mauitikitiki, so he spells the name of the fisherman Ma-tshi-ktshi-ki, and gives the myth of the fishing up of the various islands. The natives said that Maui left footprints on the coral reefs of each island where he stood straining and lifting in his endeavors to pull up each other island. He threw his line around a large island intending to draw it up and unite it with the one on which he stood, but his line broke. Then he became angry and divided into two parts the island on which he stood. This same Maui is recorded by Mr. Payton as being in a flood which put out one volcano--Maui seized another, sailed across to a neighboring island and piled it upon the top of the volcano there, so the fire was placed out of reach of the flood.
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