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1. The Maori
Contemporary Traditional Maori
Culture, part 2
"The Maori Creation Story: The
Separation of Heaven and Earth"
By Zhi Huang, 1-19-12 per6 Culture
and Geography.

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

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

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

5. Tawhiri-ma-tea, the father of winds and storms".

6. Tangaroa, the father of fish and reptiles".

7. Tu-matauenga , the father of fierce human beings".

8. Haumia-tikitiki, the father of food that grows without
cultivation".

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

10. 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."

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 people are fierce and have war,
why people eat plants and animals, and why there
are storms.