MAORI COSMOGONY.

Powers | Te Po (=The Night).
of | Te Po-toki (=hanging Night).
Night | Te Po-terea (=drifting Night).
and | Te Po-whawha (=moaning Night).
Darkness. | Hine-ruakimoe.
| Te Po.
Powers | Te Ata (=The Morn).
of | Te Ao-tu-roa (=The abiding Day).
Light. | Te Ao-marama (=bright Day).
| Whaitua (=space).
Powers | Te Kore (=The Void).
of | Te Kore-tuatahi.
Cosmos | Te Kore-tuarua.
without | Kore-nui.
form | Kore-roa.
and | Kore-para.
void. | Kore-whiwhia.
| Kore-rawea.
| Kore-te-tamaua (=Void fast bound).
| Te Mangu (=the black) sc. Erebus.

From the union of Te Mangu with Mahorahora-nui-a-Rangi (=The great expanse of Rangi) came four children:—

  1. Toko-mua (=elder prop).

  2. Toko-roto (=middle prop).

  3. Toko-pa (=last prop).

  4. Rangi-potiki (=child Rangi).

  1. Toko-mua (=elder prop).
  2. Toko-roto (=middle prop).
  3. Toko-pa (=last prop).
  4. Rangi-potiki (=child Rangi).

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