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MĀORI CREATION STORY
RANGINUI AND PAPATUANUKU THE SKY FATHER AND EARTH MOTHER
Lived happily bound together, forcing out the light
THEIR CHILDREN
LIVED BETWEEN THEM, WITH NO ROOM TO MOVE
THE CHILDREN WANTED TO
SEE THE WORLD AND MOVE AROUND BUT THEIR PARENTS WERE TOO CLOSE
THE MOON PROMPTED THE CHILDREN TO PUSH THEIR PARENTS APART.
THE CHILDREN DECIDED THAT IT WAS WHAT THEY NEEDED TO DO.
TŪMATAUENGA
THE FIERCEST OF THE CHILDREN
THOUGHT THAT KILLING
HIS PARENTS WAS THE BEST WAY, BUT THE OTHERS DISAGREED
THE CHILDREN DECIDED TO DO WHAT THE MOON HAD TOLD THEM, AND PUSH THEIR PARENTS APART.
EACH CHILD TRIED BNUT FAILED BECAUSE THEIR PARENTS BOND WAS TOO STRONG
ONLY TANE HADN'T TRIED YET
AND HE USED ALL OF HIS STRENGTH
AND STOOD ON HIS HEAD
PUSHING HIS LEGS UPWARDS
UNTIL RANGINUI
WAS FORCED TO BREAK AWAY FROM PAPATUANKU
TĀWHIRIMATEA
GOD OF WINDS AND WEATHER
WAS THE ONLY CHILD
WHO WANTED HIS PARENTS TO STAY TOGETHER HOW THEY WERE
HE COULDN'T BEAR
TO HEAR OR SEE THE CRIES OF HIS PARENTS
SO HE FLEW AWAY
TO JOIN RANGINUI, HIS FATHER, IN THE SKY
HE PROMISED
HIS SIBLINGS THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO DEAL WITH HIS ANGER
SO WHEN THERE ARE
STORMS, CYCLONES, OR BAD WEATHER CAUSING DESTRUCTION
TAWHIRIMATEA
IS REMINDING HIS BROTHERS THAT HE IS STILL ANGRY
AND THE RAIN
IS RANGINUI'S CONSTANT CRy
THE CHILDREN
ALL BECAME KEY FIGURES OF THE NATURAL WORLD
TĀNE
BECAME ATUA OF THE FORESTS
TANGAROA
ATUA OF THE SEA
RŪAUMOKE
ATUA OF EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOS
AND THE OTHER CHILDREN
All became Gods of different aspects of the natural world
ALL OF WHAT THEY DID
Made the world the way it is today.
THIS IS HOW
THE WORLD WAS CREATED ACCORDING TO MĀORI
