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TheMaori Creation Story
Contemporary Maori Culture , Part 2
By : Ismerai Garcia
January ; 31,2012
Culture and Geography

2. ( According to the Maori tradition) "All humans are
descended from one pair of ancestor 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 had six sons:(1) Tane-mahuta, the
father of the forest and their inhabitants";

5. "(2) Tawhiri-ma-tea, the father ofwinds and storms";

6. "(3) tangaroa,the father of fish and reptiles";

7. (4) Tu-matauenga the father of fierce human beings";

8. '"(5) Haumia-tikitiki, the father of food that grow
without cultivation";

9. "(8) and rango-tane, the father of cultivated food."

10. " In the beginning these six sons and all other being
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 at
food 4 of his brothers as food, sparrin 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