Posted by on March 01, 2009 at 00:58:45:
In Reply to: ORIGIN of the POLYNESIAN PEOPLE. Science! posted by Look what I found on the net. TRUTH. on May 28, 2004 at 17:48:23:
kia ora Mr Ah Ching, interesting synopsis.Our (Maori) oral tradition,however also gives a specific record of directions that a spirit must take in departing our home(Aotearoa) and returning to Tawhiti-nui,our spiritual homeland.The directions include following submarine fissures,resting at particular atolls and replenishing supplies at others but lead to a point in the pacific that is currently submerged,but part of a volcanic formation which, as assessed by University of Heidelburg Geophysicists sunk about 2500-3000 years ago and completely submerged about 900 yag. This would be Hawaiki.
Your theorem has interesting parralells with the Halmahera origin school of thought, of which I am an adherent,however your contention that there is no link to south american peoples is based on which peoples? There are peoples living in the Andes and further inland today who were forced there by spanish colonisation c.1500, whom I have lived with and who have remarkable culutral and linguistic similarities to reo maori.
Good luck with your hypothesis,Fa'a