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Contemporary traditional Maori culture part 2 "The Maori creation story: The Separation of Heaven
and Earth" By Christian Frias, 1/26/12 Per:1 culture and
Geography
(According to Maori tradition) "All humans are descended from one pair of ancestors Rangi and Papa, who are also called Heaven and
Earth."
"In those days, Heaven and earth clung closely together, and all was
darkness.
"Rangi and Papa six sons: (1) Tane-mahuta, the father of the forests
and their inhabitants"
"(2) Tawhiri- ma-tea, the father of winds and storms";
"(3) Tangaroa, the father of fish and reptiles ";
(4) Tu-matauenga, the father of fierce human beings";
"(5) Haumia-tikitiki, the father of food that grows without cultivation";
"(8) and Rongo-ma-tane, the father of cultivated food."
"In the beginning these six sons and all other beings lived in darkness for an extremely long time, able only to wonder what light and
vision might be like."
After a battle between the six sons, Tu-matauenga ate 4 of his
brothers as food, sparing Tawhiri-ma-tea, the father of winds and
storms.
This is why today people are fierce and have war, why people eat
plants and animals, and why there are storms