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Contemporary Traditional Maori Culture part 2"The Maori Creation Story: The Separation of Heaven and Earth" By Reyna Provencio, 1/13/12 Period 1 Culture and Geography Source: George Grey, 1956, Polynesian Mythology (ed. by William W. Bird): Christchurch, Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd., 250p. (BL2615.G843p 1956)
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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 had six sons: (1) Tane-mahuta, the father of the forest and there inhabitants"
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(2)Tawhirl-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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"(6)and Rongo-ma-tane the father of cultivated food"
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(5)Haumia-tikitiki the father of food that grows without cultivated"
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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.