Maori Rangi Papa

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Sky-father Rangi and Earth-mother Papa cling together in the dark, and their children are crushed in the narrow black between them. The children take counsel; gentle Tāne of the forests sets his shoulders against the earth and his feet against the sky and slowly thrusts his parents apart, and light pours into the world. Rangi's endless grief for Papa falls still as rain and dew. — Maori myth