Te Timatanga - The Maori origins (The Māori World view)

I te timatanga - In the beginning.
The projects in this collection are art prints based on my beliefs, as a māori indigenous native of Aotearoa (New Zealand)
My māori origins started with two special beings that existed in the past, and exist to this day. These two primordial beings are Ranginui and Papatūānuku. Ranginui is the skyfather, the heavens, that twinkle as stars on a clear night, looking down at us as tupuna (Ancestors) Ranginui is boundless, the light of day, the dark of night.

Papatūānuku, is the Earth mother, she is the land , the oceans, seas, mountains and valleys. Papatūānuku is the bearer of all living things, from the trees, insects and birds, animals, humans, we are all created from her. Humans come from the dust of Papatūānuku, and so return as dust to her form. The māori world view is that the first woman came from the earth clay of Papatūānuku.