Maori Myths

A man named Rona went to the moon in a separate Maori myth to find his wife. Polynesians who moved to this country.

Maori myth of creation - New Zealand

Maori are the indigenous peoples of New Zealand who, like other peoples, have myths connected with the formation of the human race and the human being. The Maori said there was a void in the beginning, and nothing was there. The Maori call this state'Te Kore'.

In this void came two gods: a manly heavenly deity called Ranginui, or Rangi, and a womanly earthly deity, called Papatuanuku, or Pop. Tawhiri, the deity of the rain; Rongo, the deity of the harvest; Tu, the deity of the battle; Tangaroa, the deity of the ocean; Tane, the deity of the woods; and Haumia, the deity of the herbs.

The legend says that the kids didn't have enough room to survive because their families were very near to each other, which led to the attempt to divide Rangi and Dad so that they had more room. Rebelling and successfully separating their families, Tane cuts Rangi's hands so that he can no longer keep her mum.

Although the daughters had consented to divide the family, Tawhiri (Tawhirimatea), the gods of storm and rain, became furious after he saw his family weeping. But at some point Dad chose to conceal the other babies to rescue them from Tawhiri's anger. Humanity arose when the wood deity Tane (Tanematua) formed the first man out of ocher and inhaled into him.

Tan had conducted a number of experimentation to create and animate beings that produced different types of tree. Eventually, when he was seeking the help of his maternal help, she recommended - noteworthily - that he should pursue the same processes that were carried out in many myths and faiths around the globe, with one decisive difference: the female was the first to be made.

According to the analysis of the different myths there are variants that deliver more detail and different interpretations of the creative isthmus. Obviously the Maori myths also have many resemblances to the babylonic epic of creating, but they also bear resemblances to the old greeks' stories of being. The way in which it is possible for an isolated civilisation to have such myths in common has not yet been found, which reinforces speculation that the myths contain a shared reality of outreach.