1. Contemporary Traditional Maori
Culture,Part 2
"The Maori Creation Story:The
Separation of Heaven and Earth
By:Larry Garcia 1-31-12
Culture and Geography

2. (According to Maori tradition)"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:(1) Tane-mahuta,the
father of the forests and their inhabitants";

5. "(2)Tawhiri-ma-tea,the father of winds and storms";

6. "(3)Tangaroa,the father of fish and reptiles";

7. (4)Tu-Matauenga,the father of fierce human beings";

8. "(5) Haumia-tikitiki,the father of food that grows
without cultivation";

9. "(6) and Rongo-ma-tane,the father of cultivated
food."

10. "In the beginning these six sons and all other beings
lived in darkness for an extremly 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.