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Contemporary Traditional Maori Culture , part 2
The Maori Creation Story :The separation of Heaven and earth
By Dewen yu2012-1-19period 4
culture and Geography
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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 -mahuta, the Father of the forests and their inhabitants
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(2)Tawhiri-ma-tea the father of food that 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 cultivated food
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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 a;; other lived in darkness for an extremely long time able only to wonder what light and vision might be like