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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
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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 six sons: (1) Tane-mahuta, the father of the forests
and their 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 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