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Contemporary Traditional Maori Culture,part 2
"The Maori Creation Story:The Separation of Heaven and Earth"
By:Brittney, Clemente 001.019.012Period:4 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);and Mr. Ruben Meza,2012
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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 has six sons:(1)Tane-mahuta,the father of the forest and their inhabitants".
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(2)"Tawhiri-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 being".
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"(5) Haumia-tikitiki, father of food that grows without cultivation."
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(6) 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 the 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-matauega 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.