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By:Larry Garcia 1-31-12Culture and Geography
Contemporary Traditional Maori Culture,Part 2
"The Maori Creation Story:The Separation of Heaven and Earth
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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:(1) Tane-mahuta,the father of the forests 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 beings";
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"(5) Haumia-tikitiki,the 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 darkness for an extremly 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-matauenga 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.