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contemporary traditional Maori culture, part 2
"the Maori creation story:the separation of heaven and
earth"
By (Christine Orona)(January 23,2010)(period 6) Culture and
Geography
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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: Tane-Mahuta, the father of the forests and their inhabitants".
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"Tawhiri-ma-tea, the father of wind and storms"
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"Tangaroa, the father of fish and reptiles".
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Tu-Matauenga, the father of fierce human beings"
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Haumia - tikitiki, the father of food that grows without cultivation.
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Rango - ma - tane, the father of cultivated food.
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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 the battle between the six sons, Tu-matauenga ate four of his brothers as food, sharing 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.