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Contemporary Traditional Maori Culture, part 2"The Maori Creation Story: The Separation of Heaven and
Earth"By Codey Ho, 1/18/12 Period 1 Culture and Geography
Source: George Grey, 1956, Polynesian Mythology (ed. by William W. Bird): Christchurch, Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd.,
250p. (BL 2615.G843p 1956)
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(According to the Maori tradition) "All humans are descended from on 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 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 of the 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.