Diskussion:Hawaiki
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[Bearbeiten] Taiwan
This article confuses two things:
- a mythical homeland/abode of the (dead) ancestors (Hawaiki)
- the land which is the hypothetical origin of the Austronesian-speaking people (not just of the Māori, or even of just the Polynesians, but of all the myriad peoples who speak Austronesian languages). Taiwan was arrived at by linguistic analysis and by DNA analysis.
Taiwan is not Hawaiki. Hawaiki's "location", if a mythical land has a location, is somewhere (undefined) in Polynesia. Kahuroa 08:50, 6. Sep 2006 (CEST)