Crossword clues for maui
maui
- Hawaiian cruise stop
- Haleakala National Park location
- A Hawaiian island
- Winter whale-watching center
- Wailuku's isle
- Wailuku site
- View from Molokai
- Ukulele island
- The Valley Island
- The "Valley Isle"
- Surfer's dream island
- Snowbird's destination?
- Site of the volcano Haleakala
- Site of Haleakala
- Site of an annual Taro Festival
- Setting of the mountain Puu Kukui
- Popular resort site
- Place named for a Polynesian demigod
- Papaya source
- One of the Hawaiian islands
- One of Hawaii's five counties
- Mauna Kahalawai's location
- Lindbergh's island home
- Kahului Airport island
- Island with many Obama impersonators
- Island with Haleakala highway
- Island that holds Haleakala National Park
- Island hopper's stop, perhaps
- Island between La-nai and Molokai, alphabetically
- Island between Hawaii and Oahu in size
- Island between Hawaii and Molokai
- Island and county of Hawaii
- Honoapiilani Highway locale
- Home to the Hana Highway
- Home to Iao Valley State Park
- Home to Hawaii's Haleakala National Park
- Home to Haleakala National Park
- Hawaiis Valley Isle
- Hawaiian island with a Taro Festival
- Hawaiian island that's larger than Oahu
- Hawaiian island that's bigger than Oahu
- Hawaiian island that rhymes with "zowie"
- Hawaiian island that rhymes with "wowie"
- Hawaiian island home to Kahului Airport
- Hawaiian honeymoon isle
- Hawaiian holiday destination
- Hawaii's second-largest island (no, not Oahu)
- Hawaii surfing destination
- Hawaii neighbor
- Hana Airport's island
- Haleakala's site
- Haleakala locale
- Getaway island
- Demigod in "Moana"
- Canadian snowbirds' destination
- American snorkeling mecca
- Aloha Classic setting
- 17th-largest U.S. island
- "Valley Isle" of the Pacific
- "I survived the road to Hana" island
- Windsurfers' mecca
- So-called "Valley Isle"
- Kahului's locale
- View from Molokai's south shore
- Haleakala Crater locale
- Haleakala National Park site
- Part of Hawaii
- Lanai neighbor
- Home of Haleakala National Park
- Hawaii's "Valley Isle"
- Second-largest of the Hawaiian islands
- Island near Lanai
- Haleakala's locale
- Neighbor of Lanai
- Haleakala National Park setting
- Hawaiian island southeast of Oahu
- The Pacific's "Valley Isle"
- Hawaiian isle
- Lanai's county
- Where Haiku is
- Site of Haleakala National Park
- Wailuku's county
- Wailuku is its county seat
- Island next to Molokai
- Kahakuloa Head locale
- Island ESE of Oahu
- Second-largest Hawaiian island (it's bigger than Oahu)
- The second largest of the Hawaiian Islands
- Where to find Wailuku
- Where Lahaina is
- Hawaii's second largest island
- Neighbor of Oahu
- Eke Crater locale
- Where to climb Haleakala
- Pacific Island group of rugby players: 50 to 1
- Pacific island
- Molokai neighbor
- Luau locale
- Island near Oahu
- Oahu neighbor
- Island of Hawaii
- County of Hawaii
- Surfers' mecca
- Wailuku's island
- Pacific paradise
- Molokai's neighbor
- Haleakala setting
- Haleakala National Park's island
- "The Valley Isle"
- Kapalua Airport site
- Isle near Oahu
- Home to Haleakala Crater
- Hawaiian Airlines destination
- Haleakala's island
- Haleakala National Park locale
- Windsurfing mecca
- Taro Festival site
- Snorkeling mecca
- Island east of Lanai
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 56377
Land area (2000): 1159.196090 sq. miles (3002.303962 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1239.539550 sq. miles (3210.392559 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2398.735640 sq. miles (6212.696521 sq. km)
Located within: Hawaii (HI), FIPS 15
Location: 20.901025 N, 156.615839 W
Headwords:
Maui, HI
Maui County
Maui County, HI
Wikipedia
The island of Maui (; Hawaiian: ) is the second-largest of the Hawaiian Islands at 727.2 square miles (1,883 km) and is the 17th largest island in the United States. Maui is part of the State of Hawaii and is the largest of Maui County's four islands, bigger than Molokai, Lānai, and unpopulated Kahoolawe. In 2010, Maui had a population of 144,444, third-highest of the Hawaiian Islands, behind that of Oahu and Hawaii Island. Kahului is the largest census-designated place (CDP) on the island with a population of 26,337 and is the commercial and financial hub of the island. Wailuku is the seat of Maui County and is the third-largest CDP . Other significant places include Kīhei (including Wailea and Makena in the Kihei Town CDP, which is the second-most-populated CDP in Maui); Lahaina (including Kāanapali and Kapalua in the Lahaina Town CDP); Makawao; Pāia; Kula; Haikū; and Hāna.
Māui (Maui) is the great hero of Polynesian mythology. Stories about his exploits are told in nearly every Polynesian land. Maui in most cases is regarded as a demi-god, or as fully divine; in some places, he is regarded as merely human (Tregear 1891:233).
For major articles, see:
- Māui (Māori mythology)
- Māui (Hawaiian mythology)
- Maui (Tongan mythology)
- Maui (Tahitian mythology)
- Maui (Mangarevan mythology)
- Ti'iti'i (Samoan mythology)
Maui is featured as a character in the film Moana.
In Māori mythology, Māui is a culture hero famous for his exploits and his trickery.
His last, fatal trick was on the Goddess Hine-nui-te-pō. In attempting to make mankind immortal by changing into a worm, entering her vagina and leaving by her mouth while she slept, she crushed him with the obsidian teeth in her vagina.
In Hawaiian mythology, Māui is a culture hero and ancient chief who appears in several different genealogies. In the Kumulipo he is the son of Akalana and his wife Hina-a-ke-ahi ( Hina). This couple has four sons, Māui-mua, Māui-waena, Māui-kiikii and Māui-a-kalana. Māui-a-kalana's wife is named Hinakealohaila; his son is Nanamaoa. Māui is one of the Kupua. His name is the same as with the Hawaiian island Maui.
In the mythology of Tahiti, Maui was a wise man, or prophet. He was a priest, but was afterwards deified. Being at one time engaged at the marae (sacred place), and the sun getting low while Maui's work was unfinished, he laid hold of the hihi, or sun-rays, and stopped his course for some time. As the discoverer of fire, Maui was named Ao-ao-ma-ra'i-a because he taught the art of obtaining fire by friction of wood. Before this time people ate their food raw. (Tregear 1891, 194, 235). See also Mahui'e, Tahitian guardian of fire.
In the mythology of Mangareva, Maui hauls the land up from the sea, and ties the sun with tresses of hair. His father was Ataraga; his mother, Uaega.
There were eight Maui: Maui-mua, Maui-muri, Maui-toere-mataroa, Tumei-hauhia, Maui-tikitiki-toga, Maui-matavaru, Maui-taha, Maui-roto. Maui the eight-eyed (matavaru) is the hero. He is born from his mother's navel, and is raised by his grandfather, Te Rupe, who gives him a magic staff named Atua-tane, and a hatchet named Iraiapatapata (Tregear 1891:236).
Maui is the second-largest of the Hawaiian Islands.
Maui may also refer to:
Māui (Mowee in traditional orthography) was a pioneering traveller from the southern Bay of Islands, who also lived on Norfolk Island, with Samuel Marsden at Parramatta, and in London. Literate and very interested in religion and mathematics, Māui enthusiastically engaged with British culture and Christianity until his death in London in December 1816.
He was the first Māori person to be baptised as Christian, following the arrival in New Zealand of missionaries such as Marsden. He was aged 8 or 9 when he was baptised.
Maui is a figure in Polynesian mythology. In the Tongan version of his tales, Maui drew up the Tongan Islands from the deep: first appeared Lofaga and the other Haapai Islands, and finally Vavau. Maui then dwelt in Tonga. Maui had two sons: the eldest, Maui Atalaga, and the younger Kisikisi. The latter discovered the secret of fire, and taught people the art of cooking food: he made fire dwell in certain kinds of wood. Maui bears the earth on his shoulders, and when he nods in sleep it causes earthquakes, therefore the people have to stamp on the ground to waken him. Hikule'o, the deity presiding over Pulotu, the underworld, is Maui's younger brother. Houga is pointed out as the spot where Maui's fish-hook caught.
Other sources say that in Tonga there were three Maui brothers: Maui-motua (old Maui), Maui-atalanga, and Maui-kisikisi (dragonfly Maui), the last one being the trickster. He also got the name Maui-fusi-fonua (Maui land puller) when he begged the magic fishhook from the old fisherman Tongafusifonua, who lived in Manuka ( Sāmoan: Manua). Tongafusifonua allowed him to take the fishhook, under the condition that he could find it in his collection of countless hooks. But his wife, Tavatava betrayed the secret, allowing Maui to pick the right hook. And so he was able to fish up the coral islands from the bottom of the ocean. (Volcanic islands are supposed to have fallen down from heavens.
Usage examples of "maui".
In all his years on Maui, Abner Hale would never once do any of God's official work unless costumed in underwear, heavy woolen pants, long shirt, stock, vest, heavy claw-hammer coat and, if the meeting were outside, his big beaver hat.
Already the first loops of the tentacles have been swept about Kauai and Maui and Oahu.
Before a sacred day my father, the Governor of Maui, would tell his assistants, 'We require a man.
That was the reason why Abner Hale, twenty-two years old and dressed in solemn black, with a beaver hat nearly as tall as he was, limped as he prepared to land at the port city of Lahaina on the island of Maui in Hawaii.
Malama, the Alii Nui, the most sacred, mana-filled human being on Maui, waited grandly while this greeting was being delivered, and when the missionary wives acknowledged it, she moved down the line again, rubbing noses with each of the women and repeating, "You are my daughter.
Behind the capital, rising in gentle yet persistent slopes, cut by magnificent valleys and reaching into dominant peaks, stood the mountains of Maui, majestic and close to the sea.
Frequently since his arrival on Maui he had been confronted by positive confusion.
The journey on foot from Lahaina to Wailuku, on the other side of Maui, took Abner and the messenger high into the mountains, and as they hiked over barren and rocky fields, with sweat pouring from them, they came upon a cloud of dust, and it was Kelolo and his lieutenants, driving their men down to the plains with a vast cargo of sandalwood.
After the burial of Urania—the first of many mission women to die in childbirth or from physical exhaustion due to overwork—Abner arranged with natives to care for Abraham Hewlett, his newborn son and the latter's wet nurse for the next two months until the difficult return journey to Hana at the tip of Maui was practical, and when these details were completed, Abner and the messenger climbed the nffly path to home.
But Malama stubbornly insisted that she be the first on Maui to speak English while Abner was equally determined to preach his first sermon in the new church in flowing Hawaiian.
It was a law that covered their experience on a tropical island, and of all the minor things Abner accomplished on Maui, this happy choice of words was most affectionately remembered among the people.
Keoki spoke first, then Janders and the Whipples, but when it came time for Jerusha, who in the last days had appreciated for the first time the courage Malama had shown in governing Maui, she did not speak but bowed and kissed the sick woman.
He spoke of the permanence of Maui, of how the whales came back each year to play in the roads, and of how the sunset moved majestically through the months from the volcano of Lanai to the tip of Molokai.
From a mean grass house, in which she worked herself to death, she brought humanity and love to an often brutal seaport, and with her needle and reading primer she taught the women of Maui more about decency and civilization than all the words of her husband accomplished.
As the island boat entered Lahaina Roads, boxed in as it was between the glorious islands, Micah caught his breath and looked alternately at the wild hills of Maui, the soft valleys of Lanai, the barren rise of Kahoolawe and the purple grandeur of Molokai.