Which excerpt from “The Maori: Genealogies and Origins in New Zealand” best shows how the Maori perceive their parents? “We should kill our parents,” he suggested, for he was the god of war. “It will be difficult, but it is the only way we can truly be free!”
“We cannot do this,” he said. “Rangi and Papa are our parents. They have created us, made us who we are.”
“The Sky Father will watch us from above, while the Earth Mother nourishes us from below.”
“It is impossible!” cried Tû. “We should kill them. There is no other way to be free.”

“We cannot do this,” he said. “Rangi and Papa are our parents. They have created us, made us who we are.”

Explanation:

"The Maori: Genealogies and Origins in New Zealand" is a narrative about how the Maori people came to be created. This creation story provides the details of how the creation myth reveals the beginnings of the Maori people.

Among the given options, the third-second sentence reveals how the Maori people perceive their parents. This is revealed in Tāne's refusal to go ahead with his brother Tū's decision to kill their parents. He declares that killing their parents is wrong and that "they created us, made us who we are." This statement from Tāne best shows how the Maori perceive their parents.

Thus, the correct answer is the second option.

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.