New Zealand Creation Story

Ranguinui and Papatuanuku still mourn each other today. Rangi's eyes drop like rains towards Papatuanuku to show how much he likes her. The Maori legend shows the original pair Rangi and Dad (or Ranginui and Papatuanuku) in a creation legend that explains the origins of the ancestry.

Shangi and Dad are the great-grandparents, the heavenly and earthly mothers, who are lying together in a close hug. You have many babies, all males, who are compelled to dwell in the narrow dark between them. They are growing and discussing with each other what it would be like to be in the candlelight.

Tumatauenga, the sharpest of the kids, suggests that the best way to solve their plight is to murder their mothers. (Grey 1956:2). However, his sibling Tane is of a different opinion and suggests that it is better to force them apart to let Rangi up as a foreigner in the heavens, while Dad will stay down to feed them.

Rongo, the deity of cultured foods, tries to force his folks apart, then Tangaroa, the deity of the ocean, and his siblings Haumia-tiketike, the deity of the game. Despite their common effort, Rangi and Dad stay closely together in their affectionate hug. Tane, land of the woods and bird, separates his father and mother after many years.

Tane stretches every string and squeezes and squeezes until Ranginui and Papatuanuku are ripped apart with screams of sorrow and astonishment. So Rangi and Papa's kids see the lights and have room to move for the first while. As the other kids consented to the breakup, Tawhirimatea, the Lord of the Wind and Storm, is angry that the parent was upset.

It is unbearable for him to listen to his parents' screams, nor to see the Rangi's teardrops when they separate, so he pledges to his brothers and sisters that from now on they will have to cope with his rage. There he cautiously nurtures his own many descendants, including the winch, one of which is sent to each fourth of the Compass.

In order to combat his brethren, Tawhirimatea is gathering an array of his children's armies, wind and various types of cloud, such as violent storms, hurricanes, dark thick hail and dark cloud, fire-filled cloud, storm and storm cloud, as well as rains, mist and mist. When those winches show their power, the powder is flying, and the great woodlands of Tane are crushed under the assault, falling to the floor, nourishment for deterioration and for deaths.

Then, Tawhirimatea attack the seas, and giant ripples are rising, vortices are forming, and Tangaroa, the deity of the ocean, is fleeing in an alarm. Punga, a Tangaroa boy, has two kids, Ikatere, who is the founder of Fishes and Tu-te-wehiwehi (or Tu-te-wanawana), the reptile ancestors. Since then Tangaroa has been furious with Tane because he has given shelter to his escaped cubs.

Thus, Tane provides the offspring of Tumatauenga with rafts, fishing hooks and fishing gear to capture the offspring of Tibet. Tangaro avenge themselves by flooding rafts and blowing away homes, lands and shrubs that are swept into the ocean during flood. Haumia and Rongo are very afraid of Tawhirimatea, but when he attacked them, Dad decided to keep them for their other kids and hid them so well that Tawhirimatea could not find them.

You thought about Tane's action by breaking up her folks, and you made traps to capture the Tane kids who could no longer be free-flight. Then he makes networks of woodland vegetation and throws them into the ocean, so that the Tangaroa kids soon lay in piles on the water.

Making hooks to excavate the soil, he catches his Rongo and Haumia-tiketike Brother, where they have hid from Tawhirimatea in the womb of the mothers of the world. He recognizes them by their long coat, which stays above the face of the world.

Tan was looking for celestial objects as light so that his dad would be properly attired. Finally Rangi was looking good. Mourning for each other, Rangi and Dad. Ranginui's eyes drop towards Papatuanuku to show how much he loved her. Papatuanuku sometimes rises and almost falls apart to get back to her loved one, but it is in vain.

Maoris, the natives of New Zealand, tell the following story or creation legend to tell how the earth was created: The heavens and the earth were once united when Ranginui, the heavenly father, and Papatuanuku, the earth mother, were in a cramp. You had many kids living between them in the dark.

Those kids were growing up discussing what it would be like to be in the lights. The hottest of the kids, Tu-matauenga, said: Let's go killing our mum and dad, and then we can always be in the candlelight. But Tane Mahuta, his younger sister, disagreed: "No, there is no reason to murder them, we can simply move them apart, then our Father can be heaven above us to guard us, and our Mother can be among us to nourish us.

All the other kids were happy with it, except Tawhiri-matea, the son responsible for the storms and the winds; he was sorry about the thought that the folks would be uprooted. Tangaroa, the sea-goer, and his siblings Haumia-tikitiki, the ungrown food-grower, teamed up.

Despite their common effort, Rangi and Dad stayed together in affectionate hugs. Eventually Tane Mahuta, the deity of the woods and bugs, tried, but instead of stand up straight and squeeze with his arms as his brethren had done, he laid on his back and squeezed with powerful toes.

Tane pressed and pressed every string until Ranginui and Papatuanuku were torn apart with screams of sorrow and astonishment. He could not stand to listen to his parents' screams, nor to see the heavenly father's eyes in his farewell, so he made great tempests and windlasses and promised his brothers and sisters that from now on they would have to fight with his anger.

From there he regularly punished the land and the ocean with his fierce thunders. Mourning for each other, Rangi and Dad. Ranginui's eyes drop towards Papatuanuku to show how much he loved her. Papatuanuku sometimes rises and almost falls apart to get back to her loved one, but it is in vain.

As fog comes up from the woods, it is Papatuanukus' sigh, for the heat of her flesh longs for Ranginui and nourishes humanity further.