How to pronounce“ma'ui”in English

The legendary Ma'ui is pretty different from his cartoon counterpart.

Some stories characterize Ma'ui as a hero, and some of them work aetiologically to explain aspects of the natural world.

The Rock may be the sexiest man alive, but he's no demigod like Ma'ui, The demigod hero of Oceania, and the role he recently voiced in the film, Moana.

But where Heracles spent the vast majority of his labours killing, or stealing monstrous animals, Ma'ui's great deeds are a little more motley.

And others capture the mythic origins of Pacific Islander culture, and also unlike Heracles, these tasks are not assigned to Ma'ui as one big hero project.

Without further ado, Ma'ui's seven great deeds.