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Contemporary Traditional Culture, part2 "The Maori Creation Story: The Separation of Heaven and Earth"

By Kim Huy, (January 23,2012)(period 8) Culture and GeographySOURCE: George Grey, 1956, Polynesian Mythology(ed.by William W. Bird): Christchurch, Whitcombe and tomb Ltd., 250 p.(BL 2615. G843p 1956);and Mr. Ruben Meza, 2012

All human are descended from one pair of ancestors, Rangi and Papa who are also called Heaven and Earth".

In those day, Heaven and Earth clung closely together , and all was darkness.

Rangi and Papa had six sons: Tane- mahuta, the father of the forest and their inhabitants.

Tawhiri-ma-tea, the father of wind and storm.

Tangaroa, the father of fish and reptiles.

Tu-matauenga, the father of fierce human beings.

Haumia-tikitiki, the father of food that grow without cultivation.

Rongo-ma-tane, the father of cultivated food.

In the beginning these six son and all other being live in darkness for an extremely long time, able only to wonder what and vision might be like.

After a battle between the six sons,Tu-mantauenga ate 4 of his brother as food, sparing Twhiri-ma-tea the father of winds storm.

This is why today people are fierce and have war, why people eat plant and animals, and why there are storm.