Maui Stealing Fire from Mahuika
After all fires in Hawaiki had been extinguished, Maui volunteered to visit his ancestress Mahuika, the goddess of fire, to obtain new flames. She pulled out one of her burning fingernails and gave it to him. However, Maui's trickster nature took over and he extinguished it, then returned for another. He repeated this deception until Mahuika had given away all but her last fingernail. Enraged, she threw her final nail at Maui, igniting a great forest fire. Maui transformed into a hawk to escape, then called upon his thunder god ancestors to send rain. Mahuika saved a few sparks which she threw