So, there is an interesting debate out there that has looped in Indigenous Native Americans and Polynesians, claiming, for example that Hawaiians are Africans.
To be clear, I do not believe that Hawaiians (or Samoans, or Tongans) are African.
But having said that--it's ENTIRELY POSSIBLE that NUBIANS made it to the Americas and then from there came into contact with Polynesians.
I have trace West African DNA from somewhere. And my half-Salvadoran grandmother has 2% West African DNA, mother 1%, and that means that I have 0.5%, though that could be from the Spanish or Italian side, so... Olmec heads, hmmmm... certainly are a stunning example of #phenotypic #African facial features. But it also bears strong resemblance to Polynesian of Melanesian stock, like #Tongans and #Fijians (Too bad we can't DNA-sequence stone!) We have to look at other clues. Looks aren't everything at least in terms of proving any kind of origin.
In terms of distances between continents... Westernmost tip of Africa is only 1,500 nautical miles from the Easternmost tip of Africa. The distance between Europe and the nearest point of America is almost DOUBLE at OVER 2,800 nautical miles. The equatorial African route to Americas would have been half the trouble of the North Atlantic route.
Absent a strong wind to fill a ship's sails, equatorial currents could have carried vessels at a rate of up to 100 nautical miles per day (averaging between 2 and 10 knots per hour) and West Africa is geographically closer to both the Equator and the Americas, and would have afforded an advanced African civilization ample opportunities to arrive in America millennia before Columbus.
We know that Nubians were advanced because they ruled Egypt in the 8th-7th century B.C.E.
One clue lies in the etymological roots of the name of ANUBIS, the Cthonian deity, as viewed through comparative examination of his name in Akkadian, Greek, Egyptian, Sanskrit, and Coptic cognates. Anubis name appears to allude to an anthropomorphized #TRIBE of "Sea People", with references to the "Nine Bows". The Nine Bows epithet pops up numerous times in the Late Bronze Age in the midst of the Bronze Age Collapse as a loose coalition of mariners who harried the Egyptians in North Africa and Hittites in the Levant around the same time of Homer's Iliad & Odyssey as well as the Hebrew Exodus, circa 1600 B.C.E. to 1100 B.C.E. (i.e. during Mer-ne-Ptah's reign from 1213 BCE – 1203 BCE).
While this is not explicitly about Hawai'i, it does bespeak to a possibility of cultural injection from Africa by way of an influx of indigenous American culture and genetics into Polynesian, i.e. Hawai'i-an, culture. Thor Heyerdahl proved it was possible with his Kon-Tiki expedition on the RA. Our own Hawaiian ancestors proved it was possible to make the much longer journey to America coming from the Asian route. In my "free time", building off of Dr. Nors S. Josephson's "Hellenicum Pacificum: Greek Linguistic Elements in the Polynesian Languages" (1995), I have managed to identify a substantial body of lexical intersections between Uto-Aztecan / Nahuatl, Polynesian languages, and even Sanskrit. Josephson thought it was Greek and for good reason--Sanskrit was the root of Indo-European languages including Indo-Aryan / Persian and Greek.
Indo-language elements pop up all over Nahuatl. One glaringly obvious example comes from words for "hills", "mounds", "round tops", "heads", "crowns":
TEPETL (Nahuatl) TEPY (Egyptian) TEPE (Anatolian) TUPU (Polynesian)
And Hawai'i, Sāmoa and Tonga are smack dab in the middle of it all--right there in the heart of the SHAMAI-YAM / SHAMO-YAM
Samoa, I AM.
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