Download - The maori creation_story (2)
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By: Brianna Clemente, 1/17/12Period 4th Culture and Geography
Source: George Grey, 1956, Polynesian Mythology( ed. by William W. Bird): Christchurch, Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd., 250
p. (Bl 2615.G843p 1956)
Contemporary Traditional Maori Culture, part 2
"The Maori Creation Story: The Separation of Heaven and Earth"
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According to the 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 forests and their inhabitants.
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Tawhirimatea, the father of winds and storms.
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Tangaroa, father offish and reptiles.
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Tu-matauenga, father of fierce human beings.
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Haumia-tikitiki, the father of food that grows without cultivation
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And the Rongomatane, the father of cultivated food.
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In the begging 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.