Creation story: Writing

       

Creation Story

In the beginning lived the earth mother Papatuanuku and the sky father Ranginui and they dwelt together in each other’s embrace in between them lived their children, but their children lived in darkness and they had to crawl between the narrow spaces between the parents so they have never seen the light neither had they stood. After much complaining one of the sons came up with the plan that he would separate their parent’s His name was called Tane. Tane placed his feet against his father and with his hands he placed and his shoulders he placed against his mother and with all of us might he bagan to push and he pushed, pushing his father high up to the sky, seprateing his parents to cover his mother’s nakedness Tane was charged with clothing her with all the beauitful greenery with the forest with the bird life he became known as the Tane-Mahuta the god of the forest, Because of the longing for his beloved Rangi the sky father would cry down his tears from the heavens, his tears would fill up the many crevices and become the many lakers, rivers and seas. Now there was one brother that wasn’t happy that Tane had separated his parents and he stayed with his father in the sky, his name was called Tawhiri-Matea the god of the winds and the storm and rain, and he would blow down his fury from the heavens the perilous winds. Through what tane did it allowed light and life to come into the world. The End