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Contemporary Traditional Maori Culture, part2 "The Maori Creation Story: The Separation
of Heaven and Earth
By Shu Guan, 01-19-2012, Period4,Culture and Geography
Source:George Grey, 1956, Polynesian Mythology:Christchurch, Whitcombe and Tombs
Ltd., 250 p. and Mr. Ruben Meza, 2012
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"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-matauenga, the father of 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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(6)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.