1. Contemporary Traditional Maori
Culture,part 2
The Maori Creation story:
The Separation of Heaven and Earth
By:JESSICA CEBALLOS.1/13/12
period1 Culture and GEOGRAPHY
George Grey,1956,Polynesian Mythology
(ed. by William W. Bird): Chrischurch,
Whitcombe and Tombs ltd., 250 p. (BL
2615.G843p 195); and Mr.Ruben Meza,
2012
2. All humans are desended from one pair of ancestors,
Rangi and Papa, who are also called Heaven and
10. In the beginning these six sons and all other beings
lived in darkness for an extremely long times, able
only to wonder what light and vision might be like.
11. 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.
12. This is why today we are fierce and have war, why
we eat the plants and animals, and why there are
storms.