Haleakala, House of the Sun
Once, the sun moved too quickly across the sky.
Maui climbed 10,000 feet to the summit of Haleakala, where the sun was asleep.
When the sun rose to cross the sky, Maui lassoed it with a rope made of twisted coconut fibers.
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.
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.
