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

(According to Maori tradition)' All humans are descended form one pair of ancestors Rangi and

Papa, who are also called Heaven and Earth

In those days, Heaven and Earth clung closely together and all darkness

"Rangi and Papa had six sons : (1) Tane- Mahuta , the father of the forests and all darkness" 

(2) Tawhiri-ma-tea the farther of winds and stroms

(3) Tangaroa, the father of the fish and reptiles';

(4) Tu matauenga, the father of fierce human begins

(5) Humia-tikitiki, the farther of food that grows without  cultivation

(8) and Rongo-ma-tane, the father of cultivated food

"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."

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

This is why today people are and have war why pepole eat  plants and animals, and why there are

storms.