Contemporary traditional maori culture,part 2The maori creation story:the separation of heaven and

earthBy Julio Sifuentes culture and geography 1,31,11

period 6

"All humans are descended from one pair of ancestors rangi and papa who are also calld heaven and earth

"In those days heaven and earth clung closely together, and allwass darkness.

Rangi and papa had sx 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 matauenga the father of fierce human beings.

Haumia tikitiki the father of food that grows without cultivation.

And Rongo ma tane the father of cultivatied food

In the beginning these six sonce and all other beings lives in darkness for an extremely long time able only

to wonder what light and vision might be like.

After a battle between the sic sons tu matauenga ate 4 of his brothers ass food sparing tawhiri ma tea the

father of winds and storms.

This is why today people are fierce and have war why people eat plants and animals and why ther are

storms