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The Kumulipo: A Hawaiian Creation Chant
35 chapters English Public domain
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This book, which appears for the first time on the Internet at Sacred Texts, contains the traditional Creation and Geneological Chant of the Hawaiian royal family, and Beckwith's extensive textual, anthroplogical, and historical commentary. This is one of the few source documents available in the realm of Polynesian religion, and it is stunning. The full Hawaiian version of the chant is included.
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35 chapters
01 Hawaiian version of the chant 02 Index of translated chants 03 Title Page 04 Contents 05 Introduction 06 The Prose Note 07 Rank in Hawaii 08 The First-born Son and the Taboo 09 Lono of the Makahiki 10 Captain Cook as Lono 11 Two Dynasties 12 The Master of Song 13 Prologue to the Night World 14 The Refrain of Generation 15 Birth of Sea and Land Life 16 The World of Infancy 17 Winged Life 18 The Crawlers 19 The Night-Digger 20 The Nibblers 21 The Dog Child 22 The Dawn of Day 23 The Woman Who Sat Sideways 24 The Flood 25 The Woman Who Bore Children through the Brain
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TKAHC
The Kumulipo: A Hawaiian Creation Chant
35 chapters English Public domain
About this book
This book, which appears for the first time on the Internet at Sacred Texts, contains the traditional Creation and Geneological Chant of the Hawaiian royal family, and Beckwith's extensive textual, anthroplogical, and historical commentary. This is one of the few source documents available in the realm of Polynesian religion, and it is stunning. The full Hawaiian version of the chant is included.
Table of contents
35 chapters
01 Hawaiian version of the chant 02 Index of translated chants 03 Title Page 04 Contents 05 Introduction 06 The Prose Note 07 Rank in Hawaii 08 The First-born Son and the Taboo 09 Lono of the Makahiki 10 Captain Cook as Lono 11 Two Dynasties 12 The Master of Song 13 Prologue to the Night World 14 The Refrain of Generation 15 Birth of Sea and Land Life 16 The World of Infancy 17 Winged Life 18 The Crawlers 19 The Night-Digger 20 The Nibblers 21 The Dog Child 22 The Dawn of Day 23 The Woman Who Sat Sideways 24 The Flood 25 The Woman Who Bore Children through the Brain
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TKAHC
The Kumulipo: A Hawaiian Creation Chant
35 chapters English Public domain
About this book
This book, which appears for the first time on the Internet at Sacred Texts, contains the traditional Creation and Geneological Chant of the Hawaiian royal family, and Beckwith's extensive textual, anthroplogical, and historical commentary. This is one of the few source documents available in the realm of Polynesian religion, and it is stunning. The full Hawaiian version of the chant is included.
Table of contents
35 chapters
01 Hawaiian version of the chant 02 Index of translated chants 03 Title Page 04 Contents 05 Introduction 06 The Prose Note 07 Rank in Hawaii 08 The First-born Son and the Taboo 09 Lono of the Makahiki 10 Captain Cook as Lono 11 Two Dynasties 12 The Master of Song 13 Prologue to the Night World 14 The Refrain of Generation 15 Birth of Sea and Land Life 16 The World of Infancy 17 Winged Life 18 The Crawlers 19 The Night-Digger 20 The Nibblers 21 The Dog Child 22 The Dawn of Day 23 The Woman Who Sat Sideways 24 The Flood 25 The Woman Who Bore Children through the Brain
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