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Pages: 612
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1982-06-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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Ku and Hina—man and woman—were the great ancestral gods of heaven and earth for the ancient Hawaiians. They were life's fruitfulness and all the generations
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Pages: 284
Authors: Martha Warren Beckwith
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-07-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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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 line
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Language: en
Pages: 482
Authors: Valerio Valeri
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1985-06-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Valeri presents an overview of Hawaiian religious culture, in which hierarchies of social beings and their actions are mirrored by the cosmological hierarchy of
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