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Contemporary Traditional Maori Culture Part 2 '' The Maori Creation Story: The Seperation of Heaven and
Earth By Daniel Tejashun 1/23/12 Period
4 Culture and Geography
According to Maori Tradition '' All humans descend from one pair of ancestors Rangi and Papa, who are also
called Heaven and Earth.''
'' In those days, Heaven and earth clung closely together,and all was the darkness.
''Rangi and Papa had six sons: Tane-machuta, the father of the forests and their inhabits.
Twahiri-ma-tea the father of winds and storms.
Tangaroa, the father of fish and reptiles.
Tu matauenga, the father of pierce human beings
haumia-tikitiki, the father of food that grows without cultivation
and rongo-ma-tane, the father of cultivated food.
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