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Contemporary Traditional Maori Culture, part 2"The Maori Creation Story: The Separation of Heaven
and Earth"By: Alyssa Garcia, January 18 2012
Period 1 Culture and GeographyGeorge Grey, 1956, Polynesian Mythology (ed. by
William W. Bird):Chrischurch, Whitecombe and Tombs Ltd.250 p.(BL2615.G843p 1956)
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(According to Maori tradition) "All Humans are descended from one pair of ancestors, Rangi and
Papa, who are also called Heaven and Earth."
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"In those days, Heaven and Earth clung closely together, and all was darkness."
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"Rangi and Papa had six sons: (1) Tane-mahuta, the father of the forest and inhabitants."
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"(2) Tawhiri-ma-tea,the father of winds and storms."
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"(3) Tangaroa, the father of fish and reptiles."
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(4) " Tu-matauenga, the father of fierce human beings."
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(5) " Haumia-tikitiki, the father of food that grows without civilization."
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(8)" and Rongo-ma-tane, the father of cultivated food."
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" In the beginning these six sons and all other beings lived in darkness for an extremely long time only able
to wonder what light and vision might be like."