 | University magazine - 1855 - 776 páginas
...day he said to hie brothers, ' Let us now catch the sun in t noose, so that we may compel him to more more slowly, in order that mankind may have long days...to labour in to procure subsistence for themselves ;' but they answered him, ' Why, no man could approach it on account of its warmth, and the fierceness... | |
 | 1869 - 688 páginas
...Veda shall we connect the Polynesian solar myth of Maul catching the sun in a noose, that he might compel him to move more slowly, in order that mankind may have long days to labour and to procure subsistence for themselves? or are we to attribute it to an Egyptian origin, as we find... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - 1870 - 438 páginas
...night again, and that the sun again sank down below the horizon, every day, every day ; so at last he said to his brothers, "Let us now catch the sun in...the art of ropemaking was discovered. And Maui took his enchanted weapon, which, like Samson's, was a jaw-bone, the jaw-bone of his ancestress Muri-ranga-whenua,... | |
 | George Grey - 1885 - 522 páginas
...the days appeared too short to him. So at last, one day he said to his brothers, " Let us now cateh the sun in a noose, so that we may compel him to move...to labour in to procure subsistence for themselves ; " but they answered him, " Why, no man could approach it on account of its warmth, and the fierceness... | |
 | Helen Archibald Clarke - 1908 - 438 páginas
...every day, every day; in the same manner the days appeared too short to him. So at last one day he said to his brothers, " Let us now catch the sun in...slowly, in order that mankind may have long days to labor in to procure subsistence for themselves " ; but they answered him, " Why, no man could approach... | |
 | Helen Archibald Clarke - 1908 - 426 páginas
...every day, every day; in the same manner the days appeared too short to him. So at last one day he said to his brothers, " Let us now catch the sun in...slowly, in order that mankind may have long days to labor in to procure subsistence for themselves " ; but they answered him, " Why, no man could approach... | |
 | William Drake Westervelt - 1910 - 242 páginas
...brothers, who were still living on the earth. Then Maui said : "Let us now catch the sun in a noose that we may compel him to move more slowly in order that mankind may have long days to labor in and procure subsistence for themselves." They replied, "No man can approach it on account... | |
 | William Tyler Olcott - 1914 - 492 páginas
...altogether too rapid, and night-fall followed dawn too quickly to suit him. "So at last one day he said to his brothers: 'Let us now catch the sun in...labour in to procure subsistence for themselves.' But they 1 Polynesian Mythology, Sir George Gray. answered him: 'Why, no man could approach it on account... | |
 | University of California, Berkeley. Anthropology Department - 1919 - 316 páginas
...every day, every day; in the same manner the days appeared too short to him. So at last, one day he said to his brothers: "Let us now catch the sun in...slowly, in order that mankind may have long days to labor in to procure subsistence for themselves"; but they answered him: "Why, no man could approach... | |
 | William Tyler Olcott - 1999 - 320 páginas
...and night-fall followed dawn too quickly to suit him. "So at last one day he said to his brothers: 1 Let us now catch the sun in a noose, so that we may...labour in to procure subsistence for themselves.' But they 1 Polynesian Mythology, Sir George Gray. answered him: 'Why, no man could approach it on account... | |
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Let us now catch the sun in a noose, so that we may compel him to move more slowly, in order that mankind may have long days to labour in to procure subsistence for themselves... 
