Grace

Grace This is child's own work I nga ra o mua, there was a god called Maui. Maui had a wife and two Tamariki. Maui’s Tamariki would always be complaining about how short the days were and how they didn’t have enough time to play, soon Maui himself got annoyed.

“Aue!” Cried Maui after he came home after work that day. “The days are to short and the nights are to long! I can’t even eat my Ika while there is still daylight! Brothers, we are going to se across Te Mauana and find the place where Te Ra rests.” Bellowed Maui, “Then we shall capture him and punish him for what he is doing.”

The next day Maui and his brothers set across the rough ways of Te Mauana, searching for the land where Te Ra rests. After many days of trouble, they finally made it to the land where Te Ra rests.

“Brothers! We have made it to Te Ra’s resting place! He is asleep now so quickly! Find a place to hide, when I say, you are to jump out and capture him with the ropes I have given you, I have casted a spell on these ropes so that they will never brake. Quickly now! It is nearly time for Te Ra to wake!”

Finally about two hours later Te Ra woke. Just before he left to rush across the sky Maui shouted to his brothers “NOW!” They lashed out with their ropes and harnesses. “Aue!” Cried Te Ra. “What are you doing to me?” Te Ra wriggled and struggled trying to get free of the ropes, but it was no good, Maui’s spell had worked. “Te Ra, your days are to fast and your nights are to long! All of the Tama and

all of the Hinei are getting so fed up! So are we and now we are punishing you for it! If you do not make your days Longer and shorten your nights then we shall never let you go!” Te Ra was starting to get annoyed. “Aue! I give up! I shall shorten my nights! I will make the days longer! Please let me go!” Maui and his brothers loosened the ropes and let Te Ra go, and from then on, Te Ra would painfully roll across the sky.