It is either his brother-in-law's gluttony or success at fishing which causes this mythological being to trod on him and stretch his backbone to turn him into a dog, according to one story.
It is either his brother-in-law's gluttony or success at fishing which causes this mythological being to trod on him and stretch his backbone to turn him into a dog, according to one story. Another story claims that he rescued his wife from Pea-pea the Eight-eyed by flying in a bird made of leaves and feathers. After Ru helps him lift the sky, he turns into a bird to entangle Ru among the stars. This figure made a particular hook from the jawbone of his ancestress to fish up islands. Some myths claim that he caught the sun by stealing cooked bananas from his grandmother, who lived in the crater of Haleakala, according to Hawaiian mythology. FTP, name this trickster god of various Polynesian mythological pantheons.
It is either his brother-in-law's gluttony or success at fishing which causes this mythological being to trod on him and stretch his backbone to turn him into a dog, according to one story.
{Maui}