Iosua Ioane Fānene
Māui vs. Maui
As my thoughts wandered on the commute to work this morning I’m reminded of a conversation I had with my dad whose early childhood was...
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Iosua Ioane Fānene
Sep 14, 20232 min read
“(Reed Fence)²” ≈ “Dragonfly”
Ah! He was called Māui-Kisikisi “Dragonfly Māui”, because dragonflies zigzag when they fly, turning corners on a dime with ease, and...
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Iosua Ioane Fānene
Sep 6, 20234 min read
wall-wall, reed-fence-reed-fence
I know Sumerian is regarded as a language isolate with no known relatives, which to me sounds ludicrous as all humans are related...
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Iosua Ioane Fānene
Sep 6, 20234 min read
Flood-hero / Sun-hero
A recent question posted to another group I follow asks: "Does anybody know if there's a direct link from New Zealand to Egypt?" There...
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Iosua Ioane Fānene
Apr 23, 20236 min read
Dear Mother, Dear Father..
"Dear mother, dear father What is this hell you have put me through? Believer, deceiver Day in, day out, lived my life through you Pushed...
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Iosua Ioane Fānene
Apr 18, 20236 min read
The Red Earth - Flesh and Blood of Chiefs and Gods
I responded to a post on Graham Hancock's Facebook where Graham quotes native American historian Vine Deloria, Jr.'s book "Red Earth:...
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Iosua Ioane Fānene
Apr 17, 20233 min read
And said ’ĕ·lō·hîm: “Let there be ’ō·wr”.
And said ’ĕ·lō·hîm: “Let there be ’ō·wr”. (Genesis 1:3) The word ELOHIM (אֱלֹהִ֖ים) comes from the Plural of ELOAH (אֱלוֹהַּ). The word...
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Iosua Ioane Fānene
Feb 11, 20232 min read
Ome-TEŌ-tl: Embracing Te Rangi and Papa-Tua-Nuku?
Nahuatl: OME: “dual; two” TEŌ-TL: “divinity” “Twin gods” OME: “dual; two” TECUHTLI: “lord, nobleman” OME: “two” CIHUATL: “wife, woman”...
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Iosua Ioane Fānene
Feb 10, 202314 min read
Cross to bear
The star constellations Crux [Hawaiian: Hānai-a-ka-malama / "fishnet for catching light (metaphorically: cultivated lands)"; Sāmoan: Toloa...
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Iosua Ioane Fānene
Feb 10, 20231 min read
"You're the best around!": NUN (𒉣)
“You're the best around Nothing's gonna ever keep you down” Samoan: SILI: 1a. to be the best 1b. to stick in, like a pen (or stylus!) 1c....
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Iosua Ioane Fānene
Feb 10, 20232 min read
dingir (𒀭)... or TINGGIR
In Sumerian AN (𒀭), which is also dingir (𒀭), means variously "heaven, sky, star" and forms a portion of the name of the father of the...
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Iosua Ioane Fānene
Feb 6, 20232 min read
Is ŠUM.KU (𒋳𒄩) Triggerfish (Balistidae)?
Fish were a very important part of the ancient Sumerian diet, so much so that fish were regarded as sacred. A number of Mesopotamian...
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Iosua Ioane Fānene
Feb 5, 20237 min read
Curls of Hair and Scorpion's Tails - That's What Noble Boys and Girls Are Made Of
My great grandmother Emelina, a simmering, dark-haired Central American beauty, emigrated from El Salvador before settling down in the...
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Iosua Ioane Fānene
Feb 5, 20231 min read
"NO" (の) means "NŌ" and "NŌ" means "NO'O"
How about this for an origin of the Japanese genitive particle NO (の)? My thinking is it’s at least para-Polynesian. Or...
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Iosua Ioane Fānene
Aug 27, 20221 min read
East to / of Eden
Adam and Eve were probably from western India, conveyed to the vast, marshy, flat region during the Glacial Maximum, where the Persian...
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Iosua Ioane Fānene
Aug 27, 20225 min read
The Peoples of the Bow: The Ubiquitous Word for "Bow"
Premise: The phonemes /p/, /b/, /v/, and /f/ are all related as labial consonants (bilabial plosive voiced and voiceless, labiodental...
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Iosua Ioane Fānene
May 9, 20228 min read
Is Hopi "Kásskara" an Akkadian word?
The Book of the Hopi & A Drowned Third World In the 1977 "Book of the Hopi" by Frank Waters and Oswald White Bear Frederick, the authors...
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Iosua Ioane Fānene
Nov 12, 20206 min read
Words About Girls/Women Reveal Them as Beasts of Burden
Women of the Pacific, the possible origin of the Polynesian word for "girl" / "woman" is going to be a mind trip though maybe not a...
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Iosua Ioane Fānene
Nov 12, 20201 min read
The "Flying Ships" of the Ancient World...
There are old stories about "flying ships" from the prehistory of every great civilization. The modern incarnations are UFOs. History...
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Iosua Ioane Fānene
Nov 12, 20201 min read
Talking about things... a mathematical process
The term for the Samoan language is #GAGANA #SĀMOA. GAGANA means "to talk". Talk about what exactly? That's the hidden meaning of GAGANA....
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