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Type: Book
ISBN: Unknown
Page count: 257
Language: English
Published: 1951
Publisher: Chicago, IL: Unknown
Editor: Martha Warren Beckwith
Translator: Martha Warren Beckwith
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Martha W. Beckwith's translation of The Kumulipo is an important work for Hawaiian mythology. It treats the creation narrative associated with the Hawaiian religion before European contact.

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  • The Kumulipo is the sacred creation chant of a family of Hawaiian alii, or ruling chiefs. Composed and transmitted entirely in the oral tradition, its 2000 lines provide an extended genealogy proving the family's divine origin and tracing the family history from the beginning of the world.

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Type: Creation
Created: Unknown
Belief system: Hawaiian
Main deity: Kane
Other deities: Kūkaʻilimoku, Lono
Origin: Americas › Northern America › United States
Hawaiian

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Hawaiian religion refers to the spiritual beliefs and customs of peoples from present-day Hawaii (before the arrival of the Europeans).

Kāne

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Kāne was a supreme deity associated with creation in some oral traditions of Hawaiian religion.

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Martha Warren Beckwith

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Martha Warren Beckwith was an American folklorist and ethnographer.

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Beckwith, Martha W. The Kumulipo: A Hawaiian Creation Chant. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1951.

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