Contemporary Traditional Maori Culture ,part 2.

"The Maori Creation Story :The Separation Of Heaven and Earth. 

By:Emily Chagolla 'January ,18,2012 .

Period 1.Culture and Geography .Source :Geoge Grey ,1956

Polynesian Mythology (E.D by William W. Bird):Christchurch. Whitcom and Tombs Ltd.,250p. (BL

2615 .G843p1956 )

 

"All humans are descended from one pair of ancestors , Rangi and

Papa , who are aslo called Heaven and Earth " 

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

"Rangi and Papa had six sons , Tane-mahuta the father of the forest and their inhabitants .

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

Tangaroa,the father of fish and reptiles.

Tu-matuenga ,the father of firece human beings .

Huamia-tikitki ,the father of food that grows without cultivition ".

Rongo-ma-tane ,the father of cultivated food .

"In the beginning these six sons and all other lived in darkness for an extremely long time ,able to wonder light and vision might be like" 

After a battle between the six sons ,Tu-matauengaat four 4of his brothers as food ,sparing Tawhiri-ma-tea,the father of winds and storms. 

This is why today people are fierce and have wars ,why people eat plants and animals ,and why there are storms.