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Contemporary Traditional Maori Culture part,2
The Maori Creation: "The Separation of the Haven and Earth"
By: Alejandra Cervantes, January 18, 2012, Per 1 Culture and Geography
George Grey, 1956 Polynesian Mythology (ed by William W.Bird): Christchruch , Whitecombe and Tombs ltd,. 250 p. (BLL 2615.
G843p 1956); nd Mr. Ruben meza, 2012
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(According to Maori tradition)' All humans are descended form 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 darkness
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"Rangi and Papa had six sons : (1) Tane- Mahuta , the father of the forests and all darkness"
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(2) Tawhiri-ma-tea the farther of winds and stroms
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(3) Tangaroa, the father of the fish and reptiles';
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(4) Tu matauenga, the father of fierce human begins
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(5) Humia-tikitiki, the farther 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 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,
thje father of the winds and storms
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This is why today people are and have war why pepole eat plants and animals, and why there are
storms.