Talk:Moana (film)/@comment-26904158-20150818212325

As a Polynesian myself, I would prefer a Island who can speak in the native tongue not sounding from the states. Also to better give you an understanding of the supposed demi-god Maui, he's a young island boy who has many stories in polynesian folklore. In my culture we believed him to be the one who fished out the hawaiian islands with that giant hook they show him holding. He was the one who introduced us to fire from a nae-nae goose (The hawaiian state bird), and was the one who slowed down the sun from passing the day fast. If you want to speak as if you know Polynesian stories you should do your research before you start bashing the culture and stop refering to Lilo &amp; Stitch as the dictation of Polynesian people. Second if that Lava woman is supposed to be a disney villian, they need to change that, we have a god in Hawaiian legend, not sure the legends from the other Polynesian people culture, but she is the Volcano Godess who is from my understanding the one being shown in the picture. She would show herself to men as an old elderly woman needing assistance and if you showed her no attention and assistance she would leave. Then as you go on your way she would reappear as her natural self a young beautiful godess and the men would fall over to assist her and that's when she would punish you. So she is more like the maleficiant portrayed by Angelina Jolie as the evil, but the god person she is. If you showed her assistance as and elderly woman and as a beautiful woman she would bless you and your travels. Next the water that they show showing life touching her I believe to be as we say in hawaiian Namaka the water godess, who is the Volcano Godess Pele older sister. So ya I apologize for ranting over this, but this is my understanding of the pictures and if they go a certain way with this movie it may seem off towards certain Polynesian cultures, but we're not sure which culture their using because Maui is a Hawaiian mythology and the tattoo's on the father of Moana is of Samoan culture dictating that his is the chief or king of his tribe. So ya thank you for reading if you did and ALOHA!!!!