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Contemporary Traditional Maori Culture Part 2
"The Maori Creation Story: The Separation of Heaven and Earth"
By: Benjamin Perez, 1/23/12Period 4 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 together, and all was darkness.
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Rangi and papa had six sons: (1)Tane-mahuta, the father of the forest 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 of an extremely long time, able only to wonder what light and vision might be like.