Posted by Peter Marsh on January 19, 2008 at 13:31:10:
In Reply to: Polynesian History & People : Tongan Heritage with Samoans and Eastern Polynesia. posted by Maui on November 23, 2003 at 21:47:08:
Science has confirmed (as we all know from a glance) that Polynesians and Melanesians are different.
Genome scan shows Polynesians have little genetic relationship to Melanesians
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-01/tu-gss011008.php
Lisa Matissoo-Smith in her interview on TV NZ said, 'We were able to look to see whether the individual possessed a particular mutation that we see at a very high frequency in Polynesians. It is a 9based pair mutation of Mitichondrial DNA and we found that the Teouma material - the first samples that we analysed did not have that mutation, so they did not look like 98% of the people we see living in Polynesia today.
The origin of Polynesians is from Taiwan 6,000 years ago. The Lapita people are a different group possibly berber sea traders from the Western Indian Ocean. Polynesians used the west coast of America as their stepping stone to Hawaii not the islands of Melanesia or Micronesia as commonly believed. This is the Hawaiian legend of origin,
The ancestors of the Hawaiian race came not from the islands the South Pacific – for the immigrants from that direction were late arrivals there. – but from the northern direction (welau lani), that is, from the land of Kalonakikeke, now known as Alaska.
According to this tradition, a great flood that occurred during the reign of Kahiko-Luamea on the continent of Ka-Houpo-o-Kane, (Ta'pen Keng is the ancient name for Taiwan) and carried away a floating log of wood named Konikonihia. On this log was a precious human cargo and it came to rest on the land of Kalonakikeke (Alaska).
On this log was the first man and woman who came to Kalonakikeke from the continent of Ka-Houpo-o-Kane, they were Kalonakiko-ke ('Mr Alaska') and his wife Hoomoe-a-pule ('Woman of my dreams'). They were said to both be high chiefs of the countries of Kanaka-Hikina (person of the east) and Kanaka-Komohana (person of the west) and were descended from the great great ancestor Huka-ohialaka.
‘Many generations later, Chief Nuu, travelled with his wife, Lilinoe, their three sons and their three wives in a canoe called Ka-Waa-Halau-Alii-O-Ka-Moku (the royal canoe of the continent), and it rested apon Mauna Kea (white mountain), on the island of Hawaii. They were the first Hawaiians.
From ‘The Ancient Hawaiian History of Hookumu Ka Lani & Hookumu Ka Honua', by Solomon L.K. Peleioholani.
Peter Marsh
www.polynesian-prehistory.com
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