Te Ao Māori

Te ao Māori considers...

• Water and land to be separate from the animals and plants

• All things (living and non-living) are interconnected

• Only things that can move to be considered living

• Only things that can be directly observed to be living thing

Mātauranga Māori is...

• Knowledge developed and passed down over many years by Māori

• Knowledge about how Western science works

Tāne mahuta...

• is the atua of wind

• is the atua of water

• allowed light to reach the land so that things could grow

• wanted his parents to remain touching

Papatūānuku is

• The earth mother

• Sky father

• Atua of forest

• Atua of water

Ranginui

• is the sky father

• the earth mother

• the atua of water

• the atua of war

Tangaroa

• Is the atua of winds and weather

• Is the atua of the forest

• Didn't want to separate his parents and so causes waves to hit the coast of Tanē each day

• Helped Tanē-Māhuta to separate their parents