Many #Polynesians today regard #ATUA / #AKUA as a sole deity. According to Reverend George Pratt's 1893 Samoan Dictionary: Atua, s....

#TUPUA / #KUPUA (Pratt, 329) is a word used for the most ancient of ancestors and gods—the Elder race of men and gods according to...

The sample text under examination as a case study is: HAWAIIAN HISTORICAL LEGENDS By William D. Westervelt (1923):...

I grew up with the understanding that, according to my dad, Gramma came from Manu’a, and that “Manu’a” meant something like “wounded...

The origin of the Polynesian counting system was a mystery. This linguistic study of the basic numbers 1 to 10 reveals deep Sumerian roots.

The #Sāmoan word for “#mother” is #TINĀ (pronounced: tee-NAW). The Sāmoan word for “#pain” is #TIGĀ (tee-NGAW). Already they seem to...

For centuries, possibly millennia, native languages have been outlawed and suppressed in their own homelands—#Sioux, #Hawaiian, #Māori,...

In the Māori language /IA/ takes the place of a word meaning “a current“, “a stream”, “the sound made by rushing water” In Sumerian, EĀ...