1. Contemporary
Traditional Maori
culture, part 2 ''The
Maori:Creataion
story" "The
Separation of
heaven and earth"per.5
by: Naomi Chaney 1-20-2012
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 six sons; (1) Tane-mahuta, the father
of the forests and their inhabitants'.

5. Haumia-tikitiki, the father of food that grows without
civilization

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

7. Tu-matauenga, the father of fierce

9. Tu-Matauenga, the father of fierce human beings

10. And Rongo-ma-ta cultivated food.