BIO

“Imua e nā poki’i, a inu i ka wai awa’awa, a ohe hope e ho’i mai ai.” / “Onward, my dear brothers, and drink of the bitter waters (of battle), for there is no retreat.” (Pai’ea Kamehameha I)
"The more I know, the more I realize I know nothing." (Socrates)
“E tala tau Toga ae Tala tofi Samoa.” / “Tongans speaks of battle prowess, Sāmoans, of being a Chosen people.” (Old Sāmoan proverb)

I love stories—reading and telling them, creating and comparing them, tearing stuff apart to analyze their essential mana’o truths and rediscover their original mana.

If you’re here hoping for deeply scholarly work, you may be disappointed. I am an amateur, self-taught linguist, applying entry-level rules of linguistics, a wide breadth of literary knowledge of legends, myths, and folklore, history, and other academic interests. While I try to base my writing and inferences on reasonable data supported with references, much of my inspiration is admittedly derived from non-linear sources, namely, hunches, dreams, flashes of insight, an occasional divine whisper, and generous amounts of poetic license. Some of my writing, too, is derivative, and a summation of other thinkers’ works.

My areas of professional specialty are in Theater, Music, Special Education and secondary education. I am not a linguist, archaeologist, biblical scholar, or Literature professor. Nor am I an expert in classical or dead languages. All my learning in these areas is fundamental at best and largely autodidactic.

I do have a special relationship with some of this work that touches on Polynesian genealogy and pedigrees common to all the descendants of Ali’i chiefs. It was my Ali’i ancestors’ beliefs that the authority and wisdom to lead was handed down to us from the heavens, or Lagi (Lani), and many genealogies are rooted in the religion and chants propagated to us by oral traditions from the ancients. Much of my research taps into this rich heritage and makes lateral connections to a growing body of research conducted in the present era into the origins, cultures, and languages of the ancient world.

It is entirely your responsibility to check my claims with your own research before judging their merits, and this is why I write—to prompt others to ask questions, seek answers, to engage in debate and thereby help unearth the true history of Polynesia.