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.