Maui the betrayal
Maui is a very famous god from the pacific islands. He is the god who fished up the north island of New Zealand and he made the days longer by slowing down the sun. My sculpture depicts this god and his small friend, the fantail who, during one adventure betrayed Maui.
The story goes that for the benefit of man-kind, Maui wanted to learn how to live forever by tricking the Maori goddess of death “Hine-Nui Te Po (the woman of the long night). To do this he had to be reborn through the mouth of the goddess. So he approached the deep cave where she slept, with his friend the fantail.
As he entered the cave he transformed himself into a lizard to make himself small and quiet. He had to enter between “Hine-Nui Te Po’s” legs and out her mouth, to live forever. However as Maui approach the opening, his friend became very excited and began to sing his song. This song awoke the sleeping goddess. She saw the lizard between her legs and she closed them, crushing him to death. This is the story of how the fantail betrayed Maui.
毛伊是太平洋岛屿上著名的神灵。是他把新西兰的北岛捞出来，并通过使太阳减速而延长白天。我的作品讲述的是毛伊神的朋友扇尾鸽，背叛毛伊的故事。
故事背景是这样的：毛伊想要捉弄毛利女神海因努伊特波（长夜女神）以此来习得长生不老的的方法。为此，他要从女神嘴里重生，于是他和他的朋友扇尾鸽偷偷溜进女神居住的深穴。
毛伊进入洞穴时，他把自己变成了一只小巧安静的蜥蜴。他必须从长夜女神的双腿间进入，并从她的嘴里出来才能长生不老。然而，在毛伊就要进入女神双腿之间时，他的朋友兴奋地叽叽喳喳唱起歌来。这歌声吵醒了熟睡中的女神，她发现了双腿间的蜥蜴并夹死了毛伊。这就是扇尾鸽背叛毛伊的故事。
