MAORI COSMOGONY

MAORI COSMOGONY bas-relief on canvas 50x70cm Notes about this: The Maori creation myth tells how the original heaven and earth were united when Ranginui the Sky Father, and Papatuanuku, the Earth Mother, lay together in a tight embrace. They had many children, who lived in darkness that there was between them two. But the children wanted to live in the light, and so divided the parents against their will. The pain of separation from Ranginui and then affects Papatuanuku. The tears of Ranginui fall as rain to Papatuanaku to show what he loves