#Pili

Iosua Ioane Fānene

Sep 13, 20197 min read

Atlas Revisited

I posed this mythology-themed riddle to everyone on my Facebook feed: “If sailboats are clouds, then the ocean is a sky. I was king of...

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Iosua Ioane Fānene

Jul 15, 20193 min read

Egyptian root of Tupua / Kupua / Tupuga / Kupuna

#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...

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Iosua Ioane Fānene

Jun 18, 201912 min read

Chasing Moons: Hina, Sina, from Asia to America via Pasefika. Closing in on Gilgamesh (Bil / Pili)

I have been thinking about the name of an ancestor known as #Salamasina. Sala-ma-SINA Mata-fa'i-fa was a #Samoan queen of four great...

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Iosua Ioane Fānene

May 30, 20197 min read

Polynesian Counting System Has Roots In Sumerian: Ritual Practices, Meat, Beer, and Fish Man Priests

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

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