Editing Māui (section)

=== Māui brings fire to the world ===
Māui wanted to know where fire came from, so one night he went among the villages of his people and put all the fires out. Māui's mother Taranga, who was their [[rangatira]], said that someone would have to ask [[Mahuika]], the goddess of fire, for more. So Māui (a grandson of Mahuika) offered to go and find her. Mahuika lived in a cave in a burning mountain at the end of the earth. She gave Māui one of her burning fingernails to relight the fires, but Māui extinguished fingernail after fingernail until Mahuika became angry and sent fire to pursue Māui, who survived only by calling upon [[Tāwhirimātea]], the god of weather, to put it out with his rain. Mahuika threw her last nail at Māui, but it missed him and flew into some trees including the [[māhoe]] and the [[kaikōmako]]. Māui brought back dry sticks of these trees to his village and showed his people how to rub the sticks together and make fire.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eng.mataurangamaori.tki.org.nz/Support-materials/Te-Reo-Maori/Maori-Myths-Legends-and-Contemporary-Stories/How-Maui-brought-fire-to-the-world|title=How Māui brought fire to the world|first=Wiremu|last=Grace|date=2016|website=Te Kete Ipurangi|publisher=Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga|access-date=19 January 2019}}</ref>