Polynesian culture
CREMATION IN RAPA NUI
CREMATION IN RAPA NUIby Cristian Moreno Pakarati - Historiador / HistorianCremation is a funerary or post-funerary ritual which allows a cadaver to be disposed of cleanly. The practice dates back at least 20 thousand years among the Australian aborigines and was also...
The Origins of the Polynesians 3
The Origins of the PolynesiansTonga & Samoa, Cuna y Núcleo de la Expansión Polinésica / Crib and Nucleus of Polynesian ExpansionLarge migratory waves of Austronesian peoples reached Near Oceania around 3,500 years ago, causing a major cultural impact in the native...
The Origin of the Polynesian Peoples
The Origin of the Polynesian Peoples La Cultura Lapita · The Lapita CultureAmong the rare archaeological certainties that we have on the ancient Polynesian peoples, one undisputed fact stands out: The Polynesian people descend from the creators of a complex culture,...
Sex and Divinity in Polynesia
Sex and Divinity in PolynesiaThe real understanding of Polynesian culture has been very slow. Stories, drawings and even photographs of explorers, navigators, missionaries and other visitors of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have been assumed as real and...
Sacred Trees in Polynesia
Trees in French Polynesia are believed to be a direct gift from the gods.
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