Contemporary tradit
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Contemporary traditional maori culture,part 2
"the maori creation story:the separation of heaven and earth"
By nengbin nie , 1-19-2012,period 4 culture and geo
George grey,1956 polynesian mythology (ed.by william w bird):christchurch,whitecombe and tombs Ltd,250p.(BL 2615.G843p 1956);and Mr Ruben meza 2012
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All humans are descended from one pair of ancestors rangi and papa who are also called
heaven and earth
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In those days heaven and earth clung closely together and all was darkness
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Rangi and papa had six sons:Tane-mahuta the father of the forests and their inhabitants
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Tawhiri-ma-tea,the father of winds and storms
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Tangaroa the father of fish and reptiles
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Tu-matauenga the father of fierce human beings
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Haumia - tikitiki the father of food that grows without cultivation
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(8)and rongo-ma-tane,the father of cultivatedfood
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in the beginning these six sons and all other beings lived in darkness for an extremely long time,able only to wonder what light and vision might be like
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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
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This is why today people are fierce and have war,why people eat plants and animals and why there
are storms