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The Maori:Creation story The Maori Creation Story: The separation of Heaven and Earth By: Anna Ching January 13 2011. Period 1 Culture and Geography

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The Maori:Creation storyThe Maori Creation Story: The separation of Heaven and Earth 

           By: Anna Ching January 13 2011.           Period 1 Culture and Geography 

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All humans are descended from one pair of ancestors, Rangi and Papi,who are also called Heaven and Earth.

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

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Rangi and Papa had six sons:(1) Tane-mahuta, the father of the forests and their inhabitants.

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

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(3) Tangora,the father of fish and reptiles.

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(4) Tu-matauenga,the father of the fierce in human beings. 

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(5) Haumia-tikitiki,the father of food that grows without cultivation. 

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(8) and Rongo-ma-tane, the father of cultivated food.

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In the beginning these six sons and all other beings lived in the darkness for a extremely long time,able only to wonder what light and vision might be like. 

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

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