Posted by Lady Leiataua UH MANOA. {66.91.85.1} on July 10, 2003 at 05:55:11:
A Perspective on Polynesian Origins & Migrations !
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Posted by Lady Leiataua {128.171.209.219} on July 09, 2003 at 07:42:55:
In Reply to: Peter Maleko AhChing Leiataua : POLYNESIAN HEART posted by Leiataua Sons {66.91.85.1} on July 03, 2003 at 00:24:03:
A CULTURAL & SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE:
Australian Aboriginals share the same Negroid characteristics ( no disrespect, thats the scientific term for this ) - example. frizzy or tight curly hair, darker skin, nose shape, height & body types - as do the peoples of Melanesia ( Mela = black & nesia = islands ) ex. Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, ---> Fiji ( borderlines ). Fijians & Tongans have more negroid characteristics compared to other Polynesians. Fiji islands is the border between Polynesia & Melanesia.
The South East Asians, Indonesians and Micronesians share the same Mongoloid characteristics ( straight hair, copper tone skin, nose morphology, body types, & height .....etc. ). Samoans, Marquesans, Tahitians, Hawaiians and Maoris have more a mixture of mongoloid & negroid features, which makes their look unique from other ancient peoples - the Africans & Asians.
We believe it is the Intermixing of these Peoples - the South East Asians, Indonesians, & Melanesians which had borned a New People of the Pacific Ocean, the POLYNESIANS. Poly = Many, Nesia = Islands, also many origins. The largest Samoan Island of SAVAI'I ( the breeding ground )has a history of Samoans, Tongans & Fijians as blood intermixed peoples and coinhabitants, both in war & peace times. Mixed blooded Samoans with Tongan or Fijian lineage populated Savai'i, SAMOA. Many of its KINGS, ALIIs and royalty were from this large Samoan Island ( 3rd Largest in Polynesia = Savai'i, others are AOTEAROA & Big Island Hawai'i ).
Polynesians have a mixture of these mongoloid & negroid features. Look at your Polynesian family members - their eyes, hair, noses, lips, body types and observe the mixed characterisitics. A blood mixture like of a modern day TIGER WOODS or TYSON the model, who both share African & Asian bloodlines ( Negroid & Mongoloid features ).
Polynesians were documented by early Europeans as having wavy or straight hair, muscular bodies, handsome, majestic & intelligent in the way they lived in ordered societies ( Wartime, well that's a different story ). Europeans described Polynesians as looking more Caucasoid than anything else - hence the theories and comparisons to ancient Egyptians or the lost migrating children of Israel. There are also theories about a lost continent of Atlantis in the Pacific Ocean.
Polynesians, described by early European Explorers, were taller, athletic ( Mesomorphic = Muscular in body types), handsome & orderly. They lived in societies with heirarchies cared for by ruling Aliis High chiefs, Priests, Skilled workers ( outrigger canoes, boat & home builders ) and commoners. These peoples had their own culture, religion and a systematic society which was different from all others ( Africans, Asians & Europeans ).
These Polynesians in ocean isolation developed their unique culture, language, and societies in the areas of Tonga & SAMOA around 5000 BC or older. In 1500 BC, they voyaged from their homes in Savai'i, SAMOA ( the largest Samoan Island with live volcanoes & home to Kings & Aliis ) and migrated eastward to Marquesas 100AD & Tahiti ( Havai'i ) 300AD and then to Hawai'i 500AD & Rapa Nui. Upon return trips to Western Polynesia they settled Aotearoa 800-1000AD ( New Zealand ). These brave souls populated the Polynesian Triangle.
Because Polynesians were seperated & isolated in the vast South Pacific Ocean, they were not exposed to diseases of continental populations of ASIA, AFRICA, EUROPE, & the AMERICAS. They were unique from all others - pristine like the bare new islands they had discovered & settled in Polynesia. Thus upon the arrivals of Europeans & other continental peoples, these once healthy people entered into a period of new Diseases & a BRAVE NEW WORLD of GLOBALIZATION. Polynesian survival needed Vaccinations & Antibiotics or else GENOCIDE !
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- Re: TIGER WOODS & TYSON ( Model ) are like POLYNESIANS ! - matt manoa {67.188.106.221} - 09:42:16 03/23/06
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- Re: TIGER WOODS & TYSON ( Model ) are like POLYNESIANS ! - rudeboy {66.214.231.73} - 07:48:46 02/26/06
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- Re: TIGER WOODS & TYSON ( Model ) are like POLYNESIANS ! - Lurikku Sione {169.241.10.82} - 20:57:52 05/05/06
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- Re: TIGER WOODS & TYSON ( Model ) are like POLYNESIANS ! - Joyce {205.188.117.11} - 05:20:00 01/28/06
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- Re: TIGER WOODS & TYSON ( Model ) are like POLYNESIANS ! - Lurikku Sione {169.241.10.82} - 20:57:52 05/05/06
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- Re: TIGER WOODS & TYSON ( Model ) are like POLYNESIANS ! - THE REMARKABLE {170.171.1.5} - 06:29:52 04/08/04
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- Re: TIGER WOODS & TYSON ( Model ) are like POLYNESIANS ! - Misguided Yank {144.134.89.67} - 01:07:31 12/12/03 (3)
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