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1. In the beginning there were the Sky Father, and the Earth Mother, locked in a tight embrace. The Sky Father shares his name with the Maori word for sky, and his name is found in a number of place names, including that of the volcanic island that dominates Auckland's Waitemata Harbour. What is the name of the Sky Father?
2. The Earth Mother shares her name with the Maori word for earth, and her name is found as part of a number of place names, including at least two Auckland suburbs. What is the name of the Earth Mother?
3. The Sky Father and Earth Mother gave birth to many male children who lived in discomfort, confined in the darkness between them. One of them, Tumatauenga, proposed killing his parents. What did Tu become the god of?
4. Tumatauenga's brother, Tane Mahuta, insisted on a less violent solution: that they attempt to push their parents apart. Together they worked and Tane pushed them apart with his strong legs. What is Tane most associated with?
5. A third brother, Tawhirimatea, was deeply angered at his brothers for separating their parents. He followed his father up into the sky and gathered up his children, sending them after Tane and his other brothers. What were the children of Tawhiri?
6. Next Tawhiri attacked his brother Tangaroa, making great waves and whirlpools rise. What is the realm of Tangaroa?
7. The remaining two brothers, Rongo and Haumia-tiketike, hid in the body of the Earth Mother, who protected them from the wrath of Tāwhiri, until he stopped storming. What are Rongo and Haumia the gods of?
8. Tane had a daughter, named Hine-ata-uira, "Maid of the Flashing Dawn", whom he took to wife, without telling her who he was. When she learned that he was her father, she fled to the Underworld, and became the goddess of night and death. What was her new name?
9. In some traditions, when Tane placed the stars in the sky, he also added the Sun and the Moon. The Sun personified has what coincidental name in Maori?
10. In some stories he was made by Tane, in others, he was made by Tu, but who was the first man, in Maori mythology?
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