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The Kumulipo is an old Hawaiian prayer chant that poetically describes the creation of the world. The word literally means beginning-in-deep-darkness. Here darkness doesn't connote gloom and evil. Rather, it's about the inscrutability of the embryonic state the obscure chaos that reigns before germination.

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