[1] The fourth installation in the Māui universe follow the curious trickster in his mission to find out what happens if all the fires in the pā went out.

Māui was not satisfied with this because he still did not understand how the fire was made and so he dropped the flame into a stream and returned to Mahuika with the excuse that it burned out.

[5] Māui began chanting a karakia to turn himself into a kāhu and flew into the branches of a kaikōmako tree.

[6] Once his aunty had calmed and left him to be, Māui broke off some branches from the tree he hid on and made his way back to his people where he retold the story of his adventure.

[7] In other versions, after Māui fished up New Zealand, one of the gods set fire to Hawaiki and Heaven, in retaliation, poured down masses of rain to extinguish the flames.

In the myth, despite Māui transforming into a kāhu, the flames were too strong and grazed the underside of his wings, causing immense heat all over his body.