Video – Ancient waka (sea-going canoe) discovered in New Zealand

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Written by Richard L. Thornton

Waka is the Maori, Uchee, Eastern Creek, Coastal Maya and Mayami (South Florida) word for a large sea-going canoe!

Mayami waka in southern Florida

Wakata was the name of a large Maya salt-trading city in Guatemala, the capital of of the Mayami on Lake Okeechobee Florida and the original name of Ocmulgee National Historical Park in Georgia. It means “Canoe People.”

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  1. This is very interesting. The Coast Miwok word for a tule boat is *saka. *They are not known to have had plank boats, while the Chumash in southern California did.

    The Moriori of Chatham Islands, related to the Maori, at some point in the past replaced their plank boats with reed boats, said to better deal with some ocean conditions.

    I have compared words for “star,” and found similarities, too.

    Hiti, hitic, and hitis, the Coast Miwok variations for the word Star, are similar to multiple Polynesian words for Star in spelling and pronunciation and closest to the Tuamotu, Māori, and Moriori versions:

    Coast Miwok – hiti,* hitic, or hitis*

    Tuamotu – heko, hetu

    Māori – whetū

    Moriori – whetu

    Mangaia – etu

    Tahiti – *feti‘a *

    Samoa – fetu

    Tonga – fetu‘u

    Hawai‘i – hōkū

    Proto-Malayo-Polynesian – bituqin.

    Unknown* – hiki,* as in Hikianalia, “may mean ‘star.’”

    This is from Makes-Marks and Janes, Stars on Earth, 2023, 247.

    Lou-Anne Makes-Marks

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