The folk tale Maui Tamed the Sun is an old maori folktale told by Dame Kiri Tekanawa. Which focuses on stopping the sun from moving so fast. Maui has a mother which complains and stresses on how fast the day goes by and that is the reason her kappa can not dry. The sun then pledge for life and came to an agreement that the days shall be long in the summer and shorter in the winter. The myth then reveals how daylight saving times is created. This is a time when the practice of advancing time during summer months by one hour so that evening daylight lasts an hour longer, while sacrificing normal sunrise times. Typically, regions with summer time adjust clocks forward one hour close to the start of spring and adjust them backward in the autumn…show more content… At the time society was broken up into five divisions of classes. chiefs and royalty being the top two, priests and the common people being in the middle, and slaves being at the bottom. All characters in the story portrays a blood role such as gods or demigods excluded the sun.
The Taming of the Sun is a Hawaiian myth explaining the creation of daylight savings time, or why half of the year we have shorter days and half of the year we have longer days this myth is played out on the island Maui of Hawaii. The major portions of this story take place on Mount Haleakala which means the house of the sun. It all took place before the seventeen hundreds. Maui struggles that his mother name hina can't get none of her work done because of the span of time. He then comes up with an idea to keep the sun up longer each day. He reaches out to his four brothers for their assistance, Maui then said “let us now catch the sun in noose, so that we may compel him to move more slowly, in order that mankind may have longer each days to labour into procure subsistence for themselves”, to which they responded, “why no man could…show more content… Which they considered this to be impossible. He then with hope from within and his brother assistance. He then began to form a rope through twist that would capture the sun and hold it. After he had a good grip on the rope him and his brothers traveled eastward where the sun rises. They avoided the day time and worked in the nite time to keep from surprising the sun. Over the course of time keeping the sun held captive the sun makes a
