According to Maori tradition, all humans are descended from the ancestral pair Rangi and Papa, who represent Heaven and Earth. In the beginning, Heaven and Earth clung closely together in darkness. Rangi and Papa had six sons - Tane-Mahuta the father of forests, Tawhiri-ma-tea the father of wind and storms, Tangaroa the father of fish and reptiles, Tu-Matauenga the father of fierce humans, Haumia-tikitiki the father of uncultivated food, and Rongo-ma-tane the father of cultivated food. These six sons and all other beings lived in darkness for a long time until after a battle between the sons