🌞How Maui Captured the Sun🌞
One day Maui woke up thinking that he would capture the sun tomorrow so he got up and he went to his brothers houses and woke them up. They all agreed that the days were way to slow and they wanted longer days. So Maui and his brothers were all scared but they had the courage to do it so they all agreed to collect flax and Maui got the magic spell right so the flax would be stronger with magic.
They plaited all of the flax and made lots of ropes, when Maui came back from getting the spell right they were all waiting, when he cast the spell on the ropes they tried ripping and cutting them but the ropes wouldn't break, then they knew that they were magical.
They traveled during the day so the sun would know they were coming, when the ground started to shrivel and dry they knew they were close, by the time they got there it was dark and the sun was in his hole, Maui said “my brothers build a wall with all of these stones around the pit” the brothers started to build the wall with the stones that were around the pit. When the sun started to rise Maui yelled to his brothers,”WHEN I SAY JUMP,JUMP AND HOOK THE SUN!” the brothers all nodded.
As the sun rose they all waited for Maui's command.”JUMP” said Maui, they all jumped and threw the ropes and they hooked up the sun and they pulled with all of their might. Maui hit the sun on his nose harder and harder “are you trying to kill me” said the sun “NO, I AM MAKING YOU TIRED SO YOU WILL TAKE LONGER FOR THE DAYS TO PASS” as soon as the sun was tired he told his brothers to let the ropes loose, as the sun floated slowly up in the air they knew they had slowed the sun.
Retold by Lily
Kia ora Lily
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your retelling of this legend. I liked the way you used speech and how you had one of the sentences that Maui said in CAPITAL LETTERS so that it stood out and let the reader know that Maui was yelling this sentence at the sun. At the beginning you made a little mistake where you said, "They all agreed that the days were way to slow.." You need to change this to the days being way to fast.
The artwork you created is beautiful. I really like the way you have the bright sun against the black background and I like your use of harakeke and glitter. Ka pai tō mahi toi!