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Otago Witness, 5 December 1900, Page 47

The Noosing of the Sun God : Ah the red day . „««». .<r~ eun Of the figging of Maui! A MAORI LEGEND. Hoy hg waxed> how he greTr j B Y )ESB IF M OKAT. ?n7 t he eßefw»se Be fw»s S,' 5h °° k! And receded and moaned [It is related in one version of the sun Like a babe th;it is chidden, legend that Maui failed to bind Te Ra till, The rope that was spun at last, he made a cord of his sister Ina's J n the White World of Maui hair. Wounded and fettered, the god then With blessing and cursing, consented to move slowly across the hea- Curled on the dazzling yens, and so to allow time for men to live Neck of Te Ra. and breathe.] "A pull for the living Tiraha, Te Ba!(*) That gasp in the light! I am Maui; _ A pull for the dead Maui, the bantling, the darling ! I n abysses of Po ! Maui, the fire-thief, the jester! A pull for the babes Maui, the world's fisherman! That are not, but shall be, lam Maui, man's champion. I n the cool, in the dawn, In the calm of hereafter ! Thou art the sun god, Tiraha, Te Ra !" Te Ra of the flaming hair. Heretofore man is thy moth. The gk v - as a gather What is the life of man, Of flame and commot ion. Bound to thy rushing wings, Low j d the red fringes Thou fire-bird of Rangi? To harass the mounta ins. A birth in a burning ; And Maui i aug hed out : A flash and a war-word ; « HU; hUj the f eat hers A failing, a falling Of the fire . bird of R ang i \» Of ash to the ashes But the rope of the blessing, Of bottomless Po.(t) The rope o f the cursing, It shrivelled and broke. I am Maui; He stooped to the coils, The great one, the little one ! And he twisted them thrice ; A bird that could nest And th ickly he threw it In the hand of a woman ! On the neck of Te Ra : £ I have vanquished « Twice for the living> The timeless, the ancients. And twice for the dead> The heavens cannot bind me ; And twice for the long hereafter !" But I shall bind thee. The heart of the heavens, Tiraha, Te Ra! The heart of the eartllj Hung on the rope of Maui. DINEDIN CARRIAGE FACTORY. OUR " RECORD "_ BUGGY Can be changed to suit two or four persons. Easy access to both seats. Comfortable riding, and plenty of room for parcels. HORDERN & WHITE, PRINCES ST. SOUTH, DUNEDIN.

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