the creation of human beings in the kumulipo happens during which wā or period of creation
In the ninth wā the ninth wā, the ninth wā the ninth
title: Kumulipo text: The "Kumulipo" is divided into sixteen "wā", sections. The first seven "wā" fall under the section of "pō" (darkness), the age of spirit. The Earth may or may not exist, but the events described do not take place in a physical universe. The words show the development of life as it goes through similar stages as a human child. All plants and animals of sea and land, earth and sky, male and female are created. Eventually, it leads to early mammals. These are the first four lines of the "Kumulipo": The second section, containing the remaining nine wā, is "ao" title: Kumulipo text: published in 1897, then republished by Pueo Press in 1978. The "Kumulipo" is a total of 2102 lines long, in honor of Kalaninuiamamao, who created peace for all when he was born. There was a lot of fighting between his ʻI and Keawe family, who were cousins so his birth stopped the two from feuding. The "Kumulipo" is a cosmogonic genealogy, which means that it relates to the stars and the moon. Out of the 2102 lines, it has 16 "wā" which means era or age. In each "wā", something is born whether it is a human, plant, or creature. title: Kumulipo text: Kumulipo In the Hawaiian religion, the Kumulipo is an 18th-century chant in the Hawaiian language telling a creation story. It also includes a genealogy of the members of Hawaiian royalty and was created in honor of Kalaninuiamamao and passed down orally to his daughter Alapaiwahine. In the "Kumulipo" the world was created over a cosmic night. This is not just one night, but many nights over time. The ancient Hawaiian "kahunas" and priests of the Hawaiian religion would recite the "Kumulipo" during the "makahiki" season, honoring the god Lono. In 1779, Captain James Cook arrived in Kealakekua Bay on the title: Kumulipo text: and is signaled by the arrival of light and the gods, who watch over the changing of animals into the first humans. After that is the complex genealogy of Kalaninuiamamao that goes all the way to the late 18th century. The births in each age include: Comparisons may be made between marital partners (husband and wife often have synonymous names), between genealogical and flora-fauna names, and in other Polynesian genealogies. Kumulipo In the Hawaiian religion, the Kumulipo is an 18th-century chant in the Hawaiian language telling a creation story. It also includes a genealogy of the members of Hawaiian royalty title: Hula text: back as what the Hawaiians call the "Kumulipo", or account of how the world was made first and foremost through the god of life and water, Kane. Kumu Leato is cited as saying, "When Kane and the other gods of our creation, Lono, Kū, and Kanaloa created the earth, the man, and the woman, they recited incantations which we call Oli or Chants and they used their hands and moved their legs when reciting these oli. Therefore this is the origin of hula." American Protestant missionaries, who arrived in 1820, often denounced the hula as a heathen dance holding vestiges