Contemporary Traditional Maori Culture , part 2
The Maori Creation Story :The separation of Heaven and earth
By Dewen yu2012-1-19period 4
culture and Geography
ALL humans are descended 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 darkness
Rangi and papa had six sons:(1) Tane -mahuta, the Father of the forests and their inhabitants
(2)Tawhiri-ma-tea the father of food that winds and storms
(3) Tangaroa the father of fish and reptiles'':
(4)Tu-matauenga the father of fierce human beings
(5) Haumia-tikitiki. the father of cultivated food
(8) and Rongo-ma- tane the father of cultivated food
In the beginning these six sons and a;; other lived in darkness for an extremely long time able only to wonder what light and vision might be like