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'''<center><p style="font-size: 150%;"> Haleakala, House of the Sun </p> </center>''' | '''<center><p style="font-size: 150%;"> Haleakala, House of the Sun </p> </center>''' | ||
− | ''<center>Once, the sun moved too quickly across the sky. The days were too short for the magnificent cloths created by the goddess Hina to dry after being dyed.</center>'' | + | '''''<center>Once, the sun moved too quickly across the sky. The days were too short for the magnificent cloths created by the goddess Hina to dry after being dyed.</center>''''' |
− | ''<center>Hina's son, the demigod Maui, climbed 10,000 feet to the summit of Haleakala, where the sun was asleep.</center>'' | + | '''''<center>Hina's son, the demigod Maui, climbed 10,000 feet to the summit of Haleakala, where the sun was asleep.</center>''''' |
− | ''<center> Maui hid until morning, and when the sun rose to cross the sky, Maui lassoed it with a rope made of twisted coconut fibers.</center>'' | + | '''''<center> Maui hid until morning, and when the sun rose to cross the sky, Maui lassoed it with a rope made of twisted coconut fibers.</center>''''' |
− | ''<center>Maui refused to release the sun unless it agreed to a bargain: Maui would set the sun free if it would agree to move more slowly across the sky.''</center> | + | '''''<center>Maui refused to release the sun unless it agreed to a bargain: Maui would set the sun free if it would agree to move more slowly across the sky.''</center> |
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− | ''<center>The bargain was struck - the sun agreed to move slowly through the sky for six months of the year, then move his preferred pace the remaining months.</center>'' | + | '''''<center>The bargain was struck - the sun agreed to move slowly through the sky for six months of the year, then move his preferred pace the remaining months.</center>''''' |
− | ''<center>The goddess Hina created a cape for her son Maui to celebrate his triumph - and it dried in one afternoon.</center>'' | + | '''''<center>The goddess Hina created a cape for her son Maui to celebrate his triumph - and it dried in one afternoon.</center>''''' |
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Haleakala, House of the Sun