Ranginui: Sky Father and Creator (Māori Mythology)
Ranginui, often called Rangi, is the primal Sky Father in Māori cosmology. He, along with Papa (Earth Mother), embodies the original union from which all life and existence flow. Their eternal embrace covers the world in darkness until their children, gods of various domains, intervene. Ranginui’s domain is the sky itself; he represents the vastness above and the source of
