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From: Michael o Hearn <>
Subject: Re: Fw: Sources
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 11:36:35 -0800 (PST)
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There is also something called common sense.  Thor Heyerdahl's first book was required reading during my first year in college preparatory high school.  His so-called scientific study has now been disproven.

His latest scholarly attempt is to trace the migratory route of Wodin from Ukraine to Denmark.  Good luck on that one.

I recall reading about prehistoric Caucasian remains dug up in the Pacific Northwest.  There were apparently several diverse waves of settlement across the Bering straight.  My residence is in the Chumash area on the West Coast, adjacent to the Channel Islands, where early settlement almost assuredly took place by boat from the Northern regions.

The tribal traditions, like those of the prehistoric Europeans, were meant to be understood by succeeding generations.  There was never any guarantee that they represent any precise demographic meaning by modern standards. Hence to judge their validity, including the genealogies, based upon these later standards is pure rubbish.  The hidden meaning is something left to be unravelled by each subsequent generation.

Michael O'Hearn


--- On Tue, 2/2/10, taf <> wrote:

From: taf <>
Subject: Re: Fw: Sources
To:
Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 12:01 AM

On Feb 1, 9:59 pm, lostcopper <> wrote:
> On Feb 1, 6:37 pm, Denis Beauregard <denis.b-at-
>
> More than one has proposed that idea involving at least some of the
> Pacific Islands, including Easter Island & Polynesia. I have actually
> discussed this with a Maori man who stated that their traditional
> history says that their ultimate origin was in the Americas & that
> they regard Native Americans as their distant ancestors.  Bronwen

And this brings us right back to the starting point.  This tradition,
if that it is, is demonstrably false and represents the exact kind of
revisionary reworking that renders such traditions dubious in the eyes
of scholars, no matter how much such alterations may give these
traditions deeper resonance to the cultures involved.

taf





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