The document summarizes a Maori creation story about how heaven and earth were originally joined together in darkness until separated by the six sons of Rangi and Papa. The sons Tane-mahuta, Tawhiri-ma-tea, Tangaroa, Tu-matauenga, Haumia-tikitiki, and Rongo-ma-tane pushed heaven and earth apart so light could come into the world. In the process of separation, Tu-matauenga ate four of his brothers except Tawhiri-ma-tea, explaining modern human traits like fierceness, eating plants and animals, and storms.

1. 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

2. All humans are descended from one pair of
ancestors rangi and papa who are also called

3. In those days heaven and earth clung closely
together and all was darkness

4. Rangi and papa had six sons:Tane-mahuta the
father of the forests and their inhabitants

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

6. Tangaroa the father of fish and reptiles

7. Tu-matauenga the father of fierce human beings

8. Haumia - tikitiki the father of food that grows without
cultivation

9. (8)and rongo-ma-tane,the father of cultivatedfood

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 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