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English, 05.07.2019 16:00, joeykyle05

At the beginning of time, the sky father and the earth mother were locked in a tight embrace that bound the earth and sky together, leaving no space in between. sky was not separate from earth or sea. rangi, the sky father, held his beloved, papa, and together they bore many sons who were not human, but rather elements of nature. these sons loved their parents, but rangi and papa's embrace was so tight that they had no space to move or to lead their lives. they lay in the darkness, constricted and unhappy. –"the māori: genealogies and origins in new zealand" in the spirit world, the trickster god raven grew bored. he decided to leave and fly over the earth, but he found it in total darkness. the selfish sky chief had been hoarding daylight from the world. raven wanted to be able to see the earth as he flew over it, so he decided to play a trick on the chief and steal the light. raven crept into the chief's dwelling. he appeared as a baby, with raven hair and black eyes. –"the raven and the first men – the beginnings of the haida" what similarities exist between the māori myth and the haida myth? check all that apply.

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