Editing Kumulipo (section)

==Divisions==
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.<ref name= "obscure">{{cite book |author= Lilikala Kameʻeleihiwa |author-link= Lilikala Kameʻeleihiwa |title= Kumulipo |publisher= [[University of Hawaii]] |year= 2008 |page=174 }}</ref><!-- what is this? a book? Thesis? paper? --> Eventually, it leads to early mammals.

These are the first twelve lines of the ''Kumulipo'', in Hawaiian, in Lili{{okina}}uokalani's English translation and in Bastian's German translation. Two other significant English translations - Rock's translation of Bastian and Beckwith's translation - appear in Beckwith's 1951 book ''The Kumulipo''.

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! [[Hawaiian language]]
! English (Lili{{okina}}uokalani)
! German (Bastian)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_s4EBAAAAQAAJ|title=Die heilige Sage der Polynesier: Kosmogonie und Theogonie|last=Bastian|first=Adolf|date=1881|publisher=F. A. Brockhaus|others=Oxford University|location=Leipzig|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_s4EBAAAAQAAJ/page/n90 70]}}</ref>
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# O ke au i kahuli wela ka honua
# O ke au i kahuli lole ka lani
# O ke au i kukaʻiaka ka la
# E hoʻomalamalama i ka malama
# O ke au o Makaliʻi ka po
# O ka walewale hoʻokumu honua ia
# O ke kumu o ka lipo, i lipo ai
# O ke kumu o ka Pō, i po ai
# O ka lipolipo, o ka lipolipo
# O ka lipo o ka la, o ka lipo o ka po
# Po wale ho--ʻi
# Hānau ka pō{{Efn|Bastian's, Rock's and Beckwith's translations end on line 11, omitting "Hānau ka pō"}}
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# At the time that turned the heat of the earth, 
# At the time when the heavens turned and changed, 
# At the time when the light of the sun was subdued 
# To cause light to break forth, 
# At the time of the night of Makaliʻi (winter) 
# Then began the slime which established the earth, 
# The source of deepest darkness, of the depth of darkness, 
# The source of Night, of the depth of night
# Of the depth of darkness, 
# Of the darkness of the sun in the depth of night, 
# Night is come, 
# Born is Night
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# Hin dreht der Zeitumschwung zum Ausgebrannten der Welt, 
# Zurück der Zeitumschwung nach aufwärts wieder, 
# Noch sonnenlos die Zeit verhüllten Lichtes, 
# Und schwankend nur im matten Mondgeschimmer 
# Aus Makalii's nächt'gem Wolkenschleier 
# Durchzittert schaftenhaft das Grundbild künft'ger Welt. 
# Des Dunkels Beginn aus den Tiefen (Wurzeln) des Abgrunds, 
# Der Uranfang von Nacht in Nacht, 
# Von weitesten Fernen her, von weitesten Fernen, 
# Weit aus den Fernen der Sonne, weit aus den Fernen der Nacht, 
# Noch Nacht ringsumher.
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The second section, containing the remaining nine wā, is ''ao'' 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.