 In former days, the sun used to travel quickly across the sky, leaving not enough daylight time for working and eating.Māui proposed to catch the sun and slow it down.Armed with the jaw-bone of Murirangawhenua and a large amount of rope, Māui and his brothers journeyed to the east and found the pit where the sun-god Tama-nui-te-rā slept during the night-time.