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Contemporary traditional maori_culture_part_2 (3)
1. contemporary traditional Maori
culture, part 2
"the Maori creation story:the
separation of heaven and
earth"
By (Christine Orona)(January
23,2010)(period 6) Culture and
Geography
9. Rango - ma - tane, the
father of cultivated food.
10. "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".
11. After the battle
between the six
sons, Tu-
matauenga ate
four of his
brothers as food,
sharing 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.