Hina (mythology)

Tuna Roa, the father of all eels, lived in a backwater near Tami's house. Bitches, the wife of Tami, came there every day to fill her calabash with water. Once, when Suki filled calabash with water, the eel-god jumped out of the water and raped it. When the next day it happened again, Suki told everything to her husband Tami.

Tami dug a large moat connecting the backwater with the sea, and set up a large net. When it started to rain, the backwater where Tana-roa lived was overflowing with water, he was carried away into the ditch dug by Tami, and he got caught in the net. Tami cut off the head of Tana-roa, threw it into the sea and chopped the tail of the eel god into many pieces.

The head of the eel god turned into a fish, most of the tail turned into a sea eel, and small pieces into freshwater eels. Thus, Tuna Roa became the father of all eels. ^[3]

For a while, the goddess Hina lived with The Tuna, the god of eels . But she was tired of her husband, and wanted to find a new love . Hina told Tuna that she would go for delicious food for him, and went to land.

Hina wandered around the world in search of love, but all the men were afraid of Tuna's revenge. Finally, she met Maui, whose mother Hua Hega forced him to marry a goddess.

When people learned about the marriage of Maui and Hina, they told everything to Tuna. At first, Tuna was indifferent, but people came again and again, and this annoyed him, Tuna decided to take his wife from Maui.

Together with the four allies, Tuna burst into the house of Maui on a huge sea wave. But the power of Maui was so great that he pushed the wave away, pushing Tuna and his allies onto the rocks. Three of the allies died, one escaped with a broken leg. As for Tuna, Maui spared him and left him alive.

For some time, Tuna lived in peace in the house of Maui. But once the eel god challenged the hero to a duel . Each was given one attempt to penetrate the body of an opponent and try to kill him. For the victory, Tuna would get his wife back. The first was Tuna's attempt. He reduced himself and entered the body of Maui. But after his attempted murder of Maui, he remained unharmed. It was Maui's turn, he reduced himself and tore the body of Tuna from the inside. Maui cut off Tuna's head and, on the advice of his mother, buried it in the corner of his house.

Soon a sprout broke out of Tuna’s head and a coconut palm grew out of it. So people got coconuts . ^[four]

Many stories about the goddess Hin, especially those related to the moon, can be found in Chapter 15, Myths of Hin (Eng. Hina Myths), by Martha Beckwith, Hawaiian Mythology . ^[five]

Hina is mainly described as a very attractive, intelligent, purposeful young woman, who is hunted by men and various mythological creatures. She is tired of living in the midst of the crowd, and she flies away to the moon and becomes the moon goddess. Hina from Hilo, an analogy of the Greek Helena, was abducted by the prince Kaupipi of Molokai.

In Samoa, the Hina analogy is Sina . One of the identical legends is Sina and the eel .

Richard Adams wrote a poem on the Tahitian story of Hina and Maui and published it under The Legend of Te Maui .

In the famous work of the Seven Daughters of Eve , Brian Sykes , the name of Hina is mentioned.

David Lee Roth recorded the song Hina , which was featured on the 1988 Skyscraper album.

A goddess of Norwegian origin who is rumored to have swallowed a whole cow. Describes merciless and fearful.

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• Reed, AW Myths and Legends of Maoriland . Wellington: AH & AW Reed, 1961.
• Sykes, B. "The Seven Daughters of Eve" New York, London: WW Norton, 2001.
• Wilkinson, Philip. Illustrated Dictionary of Mythology . New York: DK, 1998.