Chapter I. Rangi and Papa: The Separation of Heaven and Earth - Legends of the Maori

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Chapter I. Rangi and Papa: The Separation of Heaven and Earth - Legends of the Maori

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“There was Night at the first—the Great Darkness. Then Papa, the Earth, ever genial, general Mother, and our Father, fair Rangi—the Sky—in commixture unbounded confusedly clave to each other; And between them close cramped lay their children gigantic….” —Alfred Domett (“Ranolf and Amohia.”) There was more than a Miltonic sublimity in the Maori...

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1987

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James Cowan

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