According to Māori tradition, all humans are descended from one ancestral pair, Rangi and Papa, who represent Heaven and Earth. Rangi and Papa were originally tightly pressed together, leaving their children and all other beings in perpetual darkness. Their six sons - Tāne Mahuta, Tāwhiri-mātea, Tangaroa, Tūmatauenga, Haumia-tikitiki, and Rongo-mā-Tane - lived for a long time in the darkness, unable to experience light or vision. After a battle between the sons, Tūmatauenga ate four of his brothers but spared Tāwhiri-mātea, explaining why humans

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2. (According to Maori tradition)' All humans are descended form one pair of ancestors Rangi and Papa, who are also called Heaven and Earth

3. In those days, Heaven and Earth clung closely together and all darkness

4. "Rangi and Papa had six sons : (1) Tane- Mahuta , the father of the forests and all darkness"

5. (2) Tawhiri-ma-tea the farther of winds and stroms

6. (3) Tangaroa, the father of the fish and reptiles';

7. (4) Tu matauenga, the father of fierce human begins

8. (5) Humia-tikitiki, the farther of food that grows without cultivation

9. (8) and Rongo-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 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, thje father of the winds and storms

12. This is why today people are and have war why pepole eat plants and animals, and why there are storms.