Sorry, that point was rather poorly made.
EDIT: Wait, wait, wait. I'm not debating with zombie Thor Heyerdahl am I?
Gucumatz said:Personally I believe in Polynesian contact. In the Popol Vuh, the sacred book of the Maya, we have enshrined in the texts the journeys of who our ancestors got to the Maya world. According to the texts it appears the majority of the extreme ancestral Maya came from the Bering Strait area (A land of constant cold ashes) but according to the Popol Vuh a good amount of people came from the sea and that some people had even gotten there before either of these 2 groups (from the sea or Bering Strait) got there. Differences in religious structures between several tribes (including mine with our primary bat god) show imo a more pacific influence.
The basic problem is that Eastern Polynesia was only settled from 1000CE onwards while Rapa Nui the closest Polynesian outpost to South America was only settled in about 1200CE. So unless your people's origins can be placed sometime after 1200CE, the chronology just does not work.Gucumatz said:Of course its distant ancestry the portion of the Popol Vuh I am referring to - but remember, our astronomers long realized the Maya world didn't lie at the median/center of the earth - part of the astronomy and math can be traced back to that portion of the Popol Vuh to examine our origins.
Can I please have a peer reviewed source for this very bold series of claims.Gucumatz said:As for more recent examples - the one I always like to trot out is the example of Chachapoyan mummies. About half a decade ago a group of Chachapoyan mummies were found embalmed in resins of plants only able to be found in Papua New Guinea and the western pacific islands - certainly never in the Peruvian highlands or Amazonian cloud forests and jungles.
Please provide a peer reviewed source for this claim. I think it's also been conclusively established that Ahu Vinapu likely predates the foundation of the Inca Empire. A related question: do you think Great Zimbabwe was constructed by non-blacks?Zipa_DH said:The Inca emperor who made that trip was Tupac Yupanqui, and I'm almost sure he arrived to Rapanui and Mangareva, buildings like Ahu Vinapu proof his presence in those islands.
EDIT: Wait, wait, wait. I'm not debating with zombie Thor Heyerdahl am I?