Perhaps knowledge of the subject matter would hold water. Artistic licence aside our honored ancestor Pele was turned into a witch to be better digested and explained in a secular home. Also the source of Maui's power is Hina who is absent. The story is based on our intellectual property and ancestors and as fantastic as it may seem some historical fact that is just ignored. Fact is that in the only creation story that helped researchers make break through leading to DNA patent, the kumulipo mentions some of the people, our ancestor Dizzlyland has prostituted while omitting others as if killing them...
But what's turkey day or discover's day without deifing the lost pilgrim or explorer and omitting the genocide, rape, indoctrination and false nationalism.