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Contemporary Traditional Maori Culture, part 2 "The Maori Creation Story: The Separation of Heaven and Earth"
By Amanda Parada, January 19,2012Period 8 Culture and Geography
Source: George Grey, 1956, Polynesian Mythology (ed. by William W. Bird): Christchurch, Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd.,250 p. (BL 2615.G843p 1956);
and Mr. Ruben Meza, 2012
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(According to the 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 the forests and their inhabitants;
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(2)Tawhiri-ma-tea, the father of winds and storms;
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(3) , 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 cultivation;
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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, able only to wonder what light and vision
might be like
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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
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This is why today people are fierce and have war, why people eat plants and animals, and why there
are storms