Rangi and Papa
c. 1200 CE – 2026 CEattested
Aotearoa
- Polynesian
Sky father and earth mother, locked in an embrace so tight their children lived in darkness between them. The children argued about whether to kill them or separate them, and separation won. That is how there came to be light.
Known for
- parents prised apart
- light as the result of a family argument
- the sky's rain as grief
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.