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Whakapapa.

Illustration by Isobel Te Aho-White from article Te Tapa Ingoa.

In te ao Māori, all species are related through whakapapa or kinship relationships. In Māori creation stories, everything in the universe is related back to Ranginui, the sky father and Papatūānuku, the earth mother. This framework binds us all through whakapapa.

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