This is an example of a family tree of the Māori gods showing the most important

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Māori mythology Māori mythology and Māori traditions are two major categories into which the remote oral history of New Zealand's Māori may be divided. Māori myths concern fantastic tales relating to the origins of what was the observable world for the pr ...

. This family tree gives just an example - there are remarkable regional variations. ''Māori Goddesses'' are displayed in ''italics'' The primordial gods were Ranginui and ''Papatūānuku'',

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. Te Anu-matao was the wife of Tangaroa. Hine-titamauri was the wife of Punga. Hine-te-Iwaiwa married Tangaroa and had Tangaroa-a-kiukiu, Tangaroa-a-roto, and Rona. Tangaroa-a-roto and Rona married Te Marama the moon. Hinetakurua married Tama-nui-te-ra, the Sun. Uru-Te-ngangana is believed to be the father of all light, and his children are stars, sun and moon. The father and mother of creation/all gods are personifications of the stages of creation; Te Kore, Te Po, etc

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